It’s been tough for Detroit sports fans recently.  All of our legendary teams — the Lions, Red Wings, Wolverines, Spartans — all have spectacular talent but they haven’t been able to seal the deal.  The Tigers, after stinking for more than a decade, joined that “talented but still losers” club in 2006, going all the [...]

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I’m not sure what happened to the campaign for President of the United States, but for the moment there’s actually a conversation about issues happening.
Senator Hillary Clinton detailed her plan to provide health insurance today, saying that she’d work to put a cap on annual insurance premiums of 5-10 percent of income. She also [...]

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Victory in Ann Arbor, as graduate student workers have won a historic agreement with the University of Michigan for better wages. It only took one day after a protest that included walking out and shutting down construction before the adminstration got the message that they need to respect their workers or they simply cannot [...]

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Yesterday, while visiting National Airport here in DC, I was reminded about the real reason that more and more Americans can no longer afford shelter.
We’ve been told over and over again that the reason for the collapsing economy is the “subprime mortgage.” Financial hotshots figured out a new way to make tons of money [...]

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In the first five years of the debacle in Iraq, 3,990 American servicepeople have died. 29,395 have been wounded. Details on these figures are here.
“I can’t tell you if the use of force in Iraq today would last five days, or five weeks, or five months, but it certainly isn’t going to last [...]

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