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1 week ago | 
usatoday.com | Nancy Kaffer
Project 2025 is a Magic 8 Ball of doom, and having this document on my desktop is a potent and terrifying lure. All of those things you've felt vaguely queasy about for the last two months ― laying off broad swathes of the workforces at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Social Security Administration and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, threats to privatize the U.S. Postal Service, dismantling the Department of Education ― they're all in there, and more.
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2 weeks ago | 
freep.com | Nancy Kaffer
Gretchen Whitmer's political genius is in finding common ground, the "dinner table issues" we can, or should, be able to agree on. The governor’s first and most important job is to deliver for the people of Michigan, and sometimes that means rising above the fray, putting aside ego, finding signal amid the noise ― you get it.
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2 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Nancy Kaffer
Trump's pro-Palestinian activism crackdown closely mirrors a plan from the creators of Project 2025As President Donald Trump was seeking to distance himself from Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation quietly released a blueprint to destroy the pro-Palestinian movement. Many of its recommendations have since become policy. The Trump administration’s intensifying crackdown on universities and …
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2 weeks ago | 
usatoday.com | Nancy Kaffer
Project 2025 is a Magic 8 Ball of doom, and having this document on my desktop is a potent and terrifying lure.
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2 weeks ago | 
freep.com | Nancy Kaffer
Ask any Republican what their party stands for, and you'll get a quick answer: "Jobs, the border, inflation." Democrats can contest each item ― and they'd be right ― but that doesn't matter to loyal GOP voters. These are the priorities President Donald Trump and his cohort repeat ad infinitum. They're tidy and tangible, and they fit on a bumper sticker.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Nancy Kaffer
(Editor's note: This column originally published in 2019, and has been updated to reflect recent developments. While some details have changed, Editorial Page Editor Nancy Kaffer's feelings about Opening Day have not.)No one has air humped my car yet, so Opening Day is off to a great start. I try, I really do, to love my fellow man, but Opening Day makes it hard. I hate crowds. I hate litter.
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3 weeks ago | 
freep.com | Nancy Kaffer
In the most generous interpretation of last week's events, University of Michigan President Santa Ono, top U-M administrators and the Board of Regents saw the writing on the wall, and opted for the course of action that would allow the school to continue to fulfill its core missions of educating young people and performing vital research without running aground on the Trump Administration's slash-and-burn of American institutions.
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1 month ago | 
freep.com | Nancy Kaffer
Where have I heard this before? Last week, newly appointed Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin released a video refocusing the agency's 55-year-old mission: As the EPA rolls back dozens of regulations that limit the amount of toxic chemicals in our air, Zeldin said the agency would focus not on protecting the environment or public health, but on making it cheaper to heat your home, buy a car ... and run a business.
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1 month ago | 
freep.com | Nancy Kaffer
Last week, Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist II entered the weirdest Michigan gubernatorial race I can remember ― admittedly, I've only lived here since 2000, so I missed the year celebrity attorney Geoffrey Fieger ran against Gov. John Engler, which must've been a real trip. Why is 2026 so weird? Mostly because Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, an uber-Democrat until *checks watch* last Thanksgiving, is running as an independent, a strategy that I struggle to see working out for Duggan or the Dems.
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1 month ago | 
battlecreekenquirer.com | Nancy Kaffer
Last week, Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist II entered the weirdest Michigan gubernatorial race I can remember ― admittedly, I've only lived here since 2000, so I missed the year celebrity attorney Geoffrey Fieger ran against Gov. John Engler, which must've been a real trip. Why is 2026 so weird? Mostly because Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, an uber-Democrat until *checks watch* last Thanksgiving, is running as an independent, a strategy that I struggle to see working out for Duggan or the Dems.
