Next week, Tlaib is expected to open the first of four service centers across her district, this one in River Rouge. The idea is to give her constituents a place, not too far from their homes, where they can go to ask for help, with the idea that her staff can act as a go-between to federal services such as Social Security or protection under the Equal Employment Opportu...

When I was a little kid, my mom would say “Don’t take things that don’t belong to you.” 

And if I did anyway she would say “Give it back this instant, young man.”

If I didn’t, I knew justice – mom-style – would be swift and sure: A good solid two hours in my room was in my immediate future so I could “think” about what I’d done. (I never did, by the way.)

And if that didn’t...

President Obama made an overdue point in Flint recently. He said, ‘I’m not here to go through the full history of what happened. Government officials at every level weren’t attentive to potential problems the way they should have been."

The larger problem, he added, is the "corrosive attitude that exists in our politics. It’s a mind-set that believes that less government...

If you’re looking for something unusual to come out of Michigan’s March 8 primary election, be ready to be disappointed.

The latest polling data shows GOP businessman and reality television darling Donald Trump and former Democratic Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with sizable leads.

Even Ohio Governor John Kasich right across the border is now acknowledging that even...