If you actively dislike an organization and don't believe in its worth, why would you expect them to want people like you to be on their team?

The word "kid" is already informal, and now we have the word "kiddo" living alongside it.

What was Santa Ono thinking? It's Florida. Florida! Did he really think it was going to be a seamless transition from Ann Arbor to (checks notes) the Jim Crow Wannabe Era?

An urban sketching class has made writer Tamar Charney notice something most of us probably try to overlook.

When it comes to media, here's the message: It’s time for a truce between the singular agreement people and the plural agreement people.

Is anybody else bothered by politicians in full embrace of technologies they know very little about while they are summarily rejecting and defunding the scientific and education communities?

Back in January of this year, Jocelyn Benson, the current Secretary of State in Michigan, held a press conference inside a state-owned building to launch her 2026 campaign for governor. This week, the state attorney general determined that this was in violation of the state's campaign finance law.

If you are trying to do good in the world, some would now argue it’s better to be a “good doer” than a “do gooder.”

Much has been said about Governor Whitmer and her more, shall we say, nuanced approach to the Trump 2.0 presidency. The reality is, Trump is running the federal government like a monarchy, and he's the king (or the emir or the crown prince — it's clear he was in his element on this week's Middle East tour). So what is a governor to do if she needs to get stuff done? Bend the knee, butter him up, and at least appear to give him what he wants. And apparently it works.

It is less ambiguous to say “I badly need to shower” than it is to say “I need to shower badly.”