At the Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia, actors portraying Ross are busily sewing bedclothes for a doll-sized version of ...

Happy birthday, Michigan! The Mitten State was granted statehood on Jan. 26, 1837 — 188 years ago today. But many chapters of ...

Like good American kids, we often wore American flags on our chests if not our sleeves ... “If you can’t see God everywhere,” the Kotzker Rebbe (1787-1859) warned, “you can’t see ...

A federal judge temporarily blocked President Trump’s executive order that aims to restrict automatic citizenship to babies ...

Happy 187th birthday, Michigan! You look great. Honestly, you don’t look a day over 125. What’s your secret? Pilates? Whatever it is, keep it up. It’s working.

Trump signed an executive order that withdraws the U.S. from the World Health Organization, another that tries to establish ...

What kind of society do we want as we again live in a Trump era, with pardons and commutations from a convicted felon that invite crimes, including his own, to recur?

Does Michigan need a new flag? One lawmaker says yes Sent ... The wild lands we now know as Michigan were cordoned off by the American government in 1787. At that time, it was called the Northwest ...

The fine playwright Heidi Schreck has written an impassioned play about the many undercurrents and issues that percolate throughout the United States Constitution in the stimulating and invigorating ...

Predictably, millions of people from across the globe were glued on Monday to their television sets, radios and whatever internet gadgets, audio and visual, they could lay hands upon to be witnesses ...