New Year’s Eve 2019 — no one could have predicted what the coming year had in store. Certainly not me: a starry-eyed 23-year-old graduate, fresh off the boat from Ireland with plans to experience the vibrancy of the “city that…
We’ve all seen it happen again and again. Every time there’s a social or political upheaval in the U.S., President Trump responds in the way that he does, for better or for worse. Then Barack Obama releases his take —…
It’s time to stay home, nonviolent protesters. Your message has been sent and received. From the local patches of social media to the offices of governors, the calls for reform resound. As for indictments and charges, prosecutorial overreach will almost…
The Constitution sets out a way to have an effective government under which the citizens are still sovereign and their liberties are protected. Government only has the power the citizens agree to confer upon it. Basic liberties remain unalienable —…
George Floyd, whose death serves as the focal point of protests and violence engulfing dozens of American cities, lost his life in Minneapolis on the evening of Monday, May 25, after an encounter with police with several powerful drugs in…
After 10 weeks of lockdown and eight and a half weeks of declining case numbers, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced Monday that Michigan’s coronavirus lockdown will come to an end. Starting Thursday, people can walk into retail stores without first calling…
An overlooked irony of these terrible, horrible, awful, no good, very bad times (as the great children’s author Judith Viorst could have described them) is the 5-4 Supreme Court decision last week upholding California’s restrictions on church attendance: the whole…
Martin Luther King Jr.’s claim that “a riot is the language of the unheard” has been invoked by apologists for every race riot dating to the ’60s. Fire and rage make for great television — cable news certainly thinks so….
In January of this year, a woman was arrested in Virginia for peacefully protesting Gov. Ralph Northam’s efforts at gun control. The charge? Wearing a mask. The 21-year-old was hit with one felony count of wearing a mask in public,…
