Phil's Column

In today’s digital world, old school political leadership mechanisms don’t work well anymore.

Common-sense solutions should constitute a third force in Michigan politics, which could move our two entrenched political parties toward collaboration for the public good.

There is something deeply disgusting when a very few people dominate financing of our ostensibly “democratic” political system without even the pretense of public engagement.

A book recounting how FDR’s struggles with polio helped shape his worldview reminds the author of a turning point in his own life.

The CMU event, open to the public, will bring experts on early childhood development from around the world to Michigan.

A program in Washington D.C., Baltimore and Miami holds promise for low-income students, but going big with this reform carries its own risks.

When political parties control who gets nominated for the state board of education and other policy offices, the candidates that emerge are too often the product of special interests.

There’s compelling evidence that investing in infants all the way through age eight brings disproportionately high returns.