How are we going to solve the problem of poverty. Is it just a question of bad individual choices? For some people, it certainly is. For o...

If you went to pay your bill at a restaurant or wanted to buy something at a grocery store would you be put out of sorts if the business d...

How moral or self-interested are you? If the grocery clerk accidentally gives you a $20 bill when she should have given you a $10 bill wil...

As predicted here recently , the City of Detroit just became the largest municipality in US history to file for bankruptcy . Typically for t...

This is not exactly news which ought to surprise anyone but former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was convicted of 24 counts of racketeering and ext...

I used to rush to defend Detroit (and by extension all inner cities) against detractors. I would point out that high unemployment, internali...

A problem with the " great man " view of history is that it not only elides the fact that there were also " great women ...

I don't know about you but I like to model my behavior after those who are successful at what they do. If I need to lose weight I'm ...

What's happening in Detroit? You may not have noticed with all the national media attention on the Democrat-Republican fracas over the b...

Incidents like this are exactly why I no longer live in Detroit or go too far out of my way to constantly defend it against vindictive peopl...