The bumper stickers and the yard signs practically write themselves: “McMorrow for Tomorrow,” they might say, or maybe even “from Whitehouse to the White House.” But let’s not get ahead of ourselves regarding Mallory McMorrow, a blunt-speaking (and relatively young) Democratic state senator from Royal Oak who just might be Michigan’s version of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or maybe even Barack Obama. Raised in Whitehouse, New Jersey, and educated at Notre Dame, McMorrow is serving her second, four-year term in the state Senate at age 38.

The TV showed President Donald Trump on the White House lawn with his unelected Deputy President Elon Musk. They were showing off electric vehicles made by Tesla, a Musk car company currently under much criticism. Trump himself bought one, although he often rants against “electric vehicle mandates” and generally rides in the back of a chauffeured limousine.

I first met James Craig seven years ago when he was riding high as Detroit’s popular chief of police. Reporting a profile, I watched him interact with cops, citizens, and the media. You couldn’t help but notice his people skills and self-confidence.

To open its national newscast — The National — last Thursday, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation showed video of big trucks crossing the Ambassador Bridge that connects Detroit, Michigan, United States of America with Windsor, Ontario, Canada. With automotive parts constantly crisscrossing borders during vehicle production, it is a major chokepoint in President Donald Trump’s trade war of tariffs against Canada and other nations. All sides might suffer, Trump reckons, but he will show everyone who’s boss.

NEW YORK — As you leave Anne Frank’s hiding place near the end of this immersive tour, you step into a room with a raised glass floor illuminated beneath your feet. It shows the map of Europe in World War II. Little flags mark sites of concentration camps and other places where Jews were massacred.

If you enjoyed the unexpected intrigue of the 4 Nations Face-Off hockey tournament this month, get ready for a double dose of more international sports drama next year. With the Winter Olympics in Italy and the World Cup soccer tournament ending in the United States, the overlap of global sports and politics in 2026 could be exciting — and maybe dangerous. We got a glimpse of what could come when Canada won the hockey tournament on Thursday with a 3-2, sudden-death overtime victory over the United States.

“Trump Derangement Syndrome” is a valid and logical reaction to the deranged behavior of President Donald J. Trump. He is a dangerous buffoon and his second term in the White House may be worse than his first. His clown-car cabinet suggests the cast of characters in the 2006 Mike Judge film Idiocracy, with unqualified and biased secretaries like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Pam Bondi, and Pete Hegseth chosen to do damage to Health and Human Services, the Justice Department, and the Department of Defense.

Long before Justin Trudeau became Canada’s prime minister, his father held the same job. And Pierre Elliott Trudeau famously described the United States in 1969 in a speech to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. “Living next to you is, in some ways, like sleeping with an elephant,” the elder Trudeau said that day.

At Pistons’ basketball games, even over the television, you can clearly hear the chant of “Jar-ed GOFF!” At Red Wings’ hockey games in the same Little Caesars Arena, the fans repeat the name of the Lions’ quarterback: “Jar-ed GOFF!! Jar-ed GOFF!!” When the Tigers open baseball spring training next month — right after the Super Bowl — the fans in Florida may indeed echo the name: “Jar-ed GOFF!!!

My most profound travel experience came almost 50 years ago at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. Especially jarring was the vibe of claustrophobia. Imagine eight innocent people hiding in eight rooms for two tense years while Nazis hunted them down only because they were Jews.

Every now and then, even Donald Trump tells the truth, sometimes accidentally in a rhetorical question. This occurred last Wednesday morning when the felonious former Republican president crowed to a crowd in Florida after beating Democratic candidate Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election for the White House. “Look what happened,” the 78-year-old demagogue said as he extended his arms wide to his cheering cult.

When a loose cannon like Donald Trump bellows at campaign rallies that “the world is on fire” and that we are “on the verge of World War III,” it is easy to dismiss his hot spew as more lava from a verbal volcano. But when an authentic conservative elder like George F. Will objectively opines that this very war is already underway, it is worth considering his intellectual take with some serious thought — as well as fear for what is to come. Israel’s air attack on Iran over the weekend brought this thought into sharp, troubling focus.

When Donald Trump’s microphone stopped working for about 15 minutes during a presidential campaign speech in downtown Detroit on Friday night, you had to wonder what the Republican candidate might have said or done in that precious but lost quarter-hour. He might have praised the size of Arnold Palmer’s penis, the way he did Saturday night in a Pennsylvania speech that went beyond cringy. He might have insulted the Motor City again, the way he did in the previous week at the Detroit Economic Club, when Trump said the election of Democratic candidate Kamala Harris would make the whole nation as bleak and desolate as Detroit.

Suddenly on Saturday, the Tigers stopped hitting well. Then, they stopped pitching well. And they stopped fielding well, too.

By insulting his host city in his speech last Thursday at the Detroit Economic Club, convicted felon and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump figuratively pinned a “Kick Me!” sign on the backside pocket of his baggy, blue suit. Quick to take the bait on Friday were two elected Michigan Democrats, Attorney General Dana Nessel and State Senator Mallory McMorrow of Royal Oak, both on Deadline: White House on MSNBC with Nicole Wallace. Nessel suggested Trump should contest his many court cases with a plea of his own insanity and demand a competency hearing.

At a Democratic campaign rally in Flint on Friday night, Vice President Kamala Harris warned of what could come after Nov. 5 should former Republican President Donald Trump win their Election Day showdown. “If you want to know more about Donald Trump’s plans, just Google ‘Project 2025,’” Harris said, drawing loud booing from the audience that included Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Earvin (Magic) Johnson. “It is a detailed and dangerous blueprint for what he will do if he is elected president,” Harris continued.