VANCOUVER, British Columbia - I can't believe what I just heard. "Canada Strong" is Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's motto as he tries to cut overreliance on the American economy. But then he did something incomprehensible for anyone who claims to be working for the average ...
Look out the window Editor: Turn off the TV news for a minute and look out the window. Copper Country has changed since April 2025, and you don’t need a commentator to see it. Start at the gas pump. In the spring of 2025, Houghton County had the lowest gas prices in the U.P., at about $3 a gallon. This week the old Holiday gas station in Hancock posts $4.36. Look at who is hungry. Since April 2025, about 430 fewer Houghton County residents, including about 110 children, receive food assistance. That’s about $93,000 a month no longer spent at our local grocery stores. ...
WASHINGTON — Once upon a time, a theory made waves in political science courses that it didn't matter who the president was because the U.S. government was so mighty that it would run itself without any one person in charge. That's ridiculous. I hope that professor lived to see what hell ...
The civil trial of the seven Cornell University fraternity men is already being turned into a media spectacle with almost no chance of fairness to the accused unless the court shuts down the theatrics pronto. This is a case basically about the actions of eight college kids, but it has an ...
After sweeping the swing states and winning the popular vote in 2024, Donald Trump took office with a sense that he occupied the center and had dealt the cultural left a grave blow. Non-aligned or heterodox voices in the podcasting world and media had gravitated toward him, alienated by the ...
No one has been more famously obstinate about disregarding the truth when it interfered with a preferred narrative than the otherwise obscure Republican congressman from Indiana, Earl Landgrebe, who made it plain in 1974 that he didn't care a whit about President Richard Nixon's guilt. "Don't ...
