State Sen. Mallory McMorrow — a rising Democratic star known for her viral rebuttal of right-wing attacks and sharp criticism of President Donald Trump — is running for U.S. Senate in 2026, hoping to succeed retiring Sen. Gary Peters. In a two-and-a-half-minute campaign announcement video released Wednesday, McMorrow cast herself as part of a new generation of Democrats ready to push back against the influence of Trump and billionaire Elon Musk, while criticizing the Democratic establishment for failing to meet the urgency of the moment.

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.

U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib wants to give rent money to young adults and youth experiencing homelessness. The Detroit Congresswoman has reintroduced her Youth Homelessness Guaranteed Income Pilot Program Act, which calls for direct cash payments to adults under 30 and emancipated minors experiencing homelessness.

In an email to the University of Michigan (U-M) Faculty Senate, Faculty Senate Chair and Professor at Stamps School of Art Rebekah Modrak alleges that academic deans at U-M schools were recently requested “to create lists of employees who work in DEI-related positions and to estimate what percentage of their work fell into one of four categories.” Deans were apparently given 48 hours to complete the lists, which were due Feb. 14. The due date indicates that the request for lists of employees in roles related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) was issued prior to President Donald Trump’s own Feb. 14 memo, which warned U.S. schools they could lose federal funding for failing to eliminate diversity initiatives. The request for lists of employees appears to have originated with the U-M Board of Regents, which did not respond to requests for comment on this article.

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.

For the past two weeks, demonstrators have gathered outside Troy’s Somerset Collection holding handmade signs with slogans like “DETROIT VS MUSK,” “STOP FUNDING A FASCIST,” and “NO KINGS! NO NAZIS!” The demonstrations support an international “Tesla Takedown” movement against billionaire Elon Musk and his meddling in politics.

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.

Articia Bomer is no stranger to Detroit voters. She ran for mayor in 2016, state representative in 2018, Congress in 2020, governor in 2022, and Wayne County sheriff in 2024.

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson carries an early lead in the 2026 gubernatorial race, comfortably ahead of Republican U.S. Rep. John James and independent candidate Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, according to a new poll by Target Insyght for MIRS News. If the general election were held today, the poll found 42% of the 600 respondents said they would vote for Benson, a Democrat, in a hypothetical matchup.

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.

Michigan is still “feeling the Bern.” On Saturday, some 10,000 people came to Lincoln High School in Warren to listen to U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders — a figure that seemed to surprise even his own team.

Denzel McCampbell, a longtime advocate and public servant, has launched his campaign for Detroit City Council — pledging to fight for affordable housing, better public transportation, and greater government transparency.  “I am proud to announce my campaign to become the next city council person for Detroit’s District 7,” McCampbell said in a statement Thursday.

President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress on Tuesday night was a fascist speech. He spent much of the record-setting address — at one hour and 40 minutes, the longest ever delivered to Congress — sneering at and denigrating Democrats, spouting a firehose blast of falsehoods, threatening to annex allied nations like Greenland “one way or another,” calling for the death penalty to anyone who kills a cop, promising to round up “illegal” immigrants, and continuing to roll out the red carpet for his oligarch friend Elon Musk to take over the U.S. government. But much of the address was also centered on the ongoing moral panic against transgender people — statements that were reportedly not included in excerpts shared with the press ahead of time.

The United Auto Workers union is throwing its support behind President Donald Trump’s sweeping new tariffs, saying they are a necessary tool to reverse decades of what it calls “anti-worker trade deals.” But the endorsement comes as industry leaders and economists warn that tariffs could deal a serious blow to the American auto sector, driving up car prices, disrupting supply chains, and threatening thousands of jobs.

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.

While the Democratic Party seems to be at a loss as to how to respond to President Donald Trump and his billionaire buddy Elon Musk’s rapid (and possibly unconstitutional) dismantling of the federal government, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders is calling it like he sees it. The Vermont independent has hit the road for a national “Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here” tour, rallying against what his office calls “the takeover of the national government by billionaires and large corporations, and the country’s move toward authoritarianism.”

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel was met with boos and chants of “Drop the charges” at the Michigan Democratic Party Convention in Detroit on Saturday as pro-Palestinian party members protested her prosecution of activists at the University of Michigan. The tense moment occurred during the Sixth Congressional District meeting at the Renaissance Center, where U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell introduced Nessel to the room. While many in the crowd cheered, other Democratic Party members erupted in jeers, chanting for about a minute as Dingell struggled to regain control.

This past Saturday was Gabriela Santiago-Romero’s birthday party fundraising event. She had set out to raise $20,000 in just over a month to help support a campaign while working full time for the city. The event proved successful and the room roared as Santiago-Romero unexpectedly crossed the finish line.

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.