The Milwaukee debate was a travesty. Not that the moderators asked the wrong questions (though, seriously, UFOs?) or that the candidates gave the wrong answers — rather, the entire format is guaranteed to elicit the kind of behavior that least conduces to good leadership. There should be no ...

If it “got late early” in the old majestic Yankee Stadium with its long shadows, as the famous Yogi Berra quote had it, it’s gotten late before about the fourth inning in the Republican presidential race. In 2016, Donald Trump loved to pump out the results of unreliable online polls ...

Paramount recently announced that it will be selling Simon & Schuster, one of the biggest and most prestigious publishing houses in the United States, to the private-equity firm KKR, for $1.62 billion. The acquisition vastly increases the influence of financial interests over book ...

Michigan public health leaders are urging parents to get their children caught up on vaccinations before returning to classes this fall, to prevent outbreaks of serious communicable diseases such as measles, mumps, pertussis, chickenpox and more. Vaccination rates for Michigan children ages ...

Not since the settlement of the sit-down strike at General Motors in 1937 has a United Auto Workers president been more ambitious in his contract demands than is Shawn Fain in this year’s negotiations. Walter Reuther won that earlier fight and launched the rise of the middle class. Fain, if ...

Autumn begins on Sept. 23. Let that sink in when people tell you summer is over. Sure, Northern Michigan University students are coming back, you see the occasional red maple leaf on the ground and the days are getting shorter. That doesn’t mean all is lost. For one thing, is autumn ...