WASHINGTON — This week marks the 30th anniversary of the beginning of an episode that led to a sitting president admitting his guilt to a felony, a first in America’s history. In the late 1990s, former President Bill Clinton was embroiled in a sex scandal involving a young lady from ...
WASHINGTON — You know the way Shakespeare created a portrait of a family’s hard feelings in King Lear, his tragedy about a raging, storming English king with three daughters? That play, set in Gloucester, speaks to me now of how Congress and the country are falling apart. It even takes me ...
By The Associated Press Today in History Today is Thursday, May 9, the 130th day of 2024. There are 236 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 9, 1994, South Africa’s newly elected parliament chose Nelson Mandela to be the country’s first Black president. On ...
Looking to the future, Michigan’s small business owners are worried about a lot of things, including inflation, tighter regulations and a dearth of talent. But near the top of the list is concern the Democratic controlled Legislature will deliver on a promise to increase unemployment ...
WASHINGTON — “ O never give me over to my own heart’s desires, nor let me follow my own imaginations!”- John Wesley There are many reasons for the modern church’s loss of its prophetic voice, politics being just one of them. As in ancient times, trying to embrace what the rest of ...
BERKELEY — My students are graduating at a tremulous time. The largest campus protest movement of the 21st century. The first criminal trial of a former U.S. president. The most restrictive abortion laws in the nation. Two horrific wars. All of this coming after a pandemic that claimed ...