A year ago, Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States. Tonight, as the clock crossed midnight, the first year of his presidency ended with a Trump government shutdown. The “great deal maker”, unsurprisingly, is not really…
The President, Donald Trump, proclaimed this day, January 16, 2018, to be Religious Freedom Day. Religious Freedom Day is, in the president’s words, a day when we… … celebrate the many faiths that make up our country, and we commemorate the 232nd…
I just received an email from my Michigan senator, Debbie Stabenow, with an ominous subject line: BREAKING: Great Lakes Funding ELIMINATED I know Donald Trump has been threatening Great Lakes funding as part of his irrational drive to find money to build…
Without a doubt, the smartest thing I’ve ever done, I did thirty-five years ago today: Thirty-five years ago, I married my best friend on a perfect Saturday afternoon in Ann Arbor. We were pretty young and didn’t know exactly what…
A friend of mine just pointed me to the #Trumpectomy hashtag on Twitter. The meaning, of course, is a procedure to remove Donald Trump from office. But seeing that term triggered, in a serendipitous flash, a spontaneous understanding of a…
President-elect, Donald Trump, our Twitter-wielding intimidator-in-chief, has turned his ironic rage toward the cast of the Hamilton musical. Last night, vice-president-elect, Mike Pense, attended the musical Hamilton. After the performance, actor Brandon Victor Dixon (who plays the character, Aaron Burr), recognized Mr.…