To the editor: In Michigan, 19 percent of Medicaid enrollees are older adults and individuals with disabilities. For those with intellectual and developmental disabilities (ID/DD), Medicaid is not just a safety net, but a vital source of access to essential long term care services. ...
Back in the early 1990s when I was running as a Republican candidate for Congress, a governor from Arkansas, Bill Clinton, once said during a three-way race for president the following, "It's the economy, stupid." Well, today, I would change that slightly to: "It's the bond market, stupid." (It ...
Has Donald Trump declared war on Albert Einstein? "America is in danger of experiencing an academic brain drain," The Economist warns. As soon as the Department of Homeland Security announced Harvard University would no longer be allowed to enroll foreign students, the Eurasia Group's Ian ...
One reason why the public turned on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) was its insistence that roughly 70 percent of the country was stereotyped as victimizers by virtue of their skin color. In contrast, the other "diverse" 30% were de facto considered the victimized. In such absurd ...
Between the late 19th and 20th centuries, labor unions came and went at Copper Country mines. When the area's copper mines organized in the early 1940s, they were organized under the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, CIO. The IUMMSW was an outgrowth of the former ...
How does a political party with overwhelming advantages, including increasing support from the growing bloc of highly educated and affluent voters, almost monopoly support from the press and broadcast media, and with burgeoning financial and high-tech sectors of the economy, manage to lose just ...