Chicago notched a win for an endangered species this summer as Great Lakes piping plovers Monty and Rose nested at Montrose Beach and successfully launched two offspring, with the help of many watchful volunteers and one canceled music festival. Elsewhere, news was dire for struggling specie…
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President Trump has repeatedly promised, “America will never be a socialist country.” Since Franklin Roosevelt began expanding government in the 1930s, the United States has increasingly adopted big-state policies associated with socialism.
It’s beginning to feel like 1980s news tape showing America’s despotic enemies running amok.
The cruelty was the point.
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Community is critical. Perhaps I didn’t realize just how much that was the case until we stepped back into Spring Lake, Michigan, in the beginning of July after our six-month life in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Michigan State University welcomed its new chief executive, Dr. Samuel Stanley Jr., last week. He’ll be the newest in a long line of leaders who’ve helped to elevate MSU from its agricultural roots as one of the nation’s first land-grant universities into one of the world’s top research inst…
Overlooking moments like President Donald Trump’s “We are watching Google very closely!” tweet on Tuesday, U.S. lawmakers mostly mindful of free speech rights tend to be reluctant to shut down internet content.
“I could never live in the States again,” a Canadian friend who once lived in San Francisco told me this week. “Your cities are just too violent.”
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