by Mitch Albom | May 14, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
How should we react to people who are homeless? It’s an issue facing more and more Americans, as the problem keeps swelling, particularly in our cities. One reaction is to run from the word. Using “homeless,’’ or specifically “the homeless,” has been assailed by...
by Mitch Albom | May 7, 2023 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Last week, Hunter Dickinson, arguably the best player on the Michigan basketball team, posted a message on social media. The message was simple: I’m leaving for greener pastures. Oh, he didn’t put it that way. Dickinson called his transfer to another...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 30, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
The appeal of the NFL draft is that it’s shopping with someone else’s money. You get to cheer, criticize, yell “Buy!” or “Don’t buy!” and it doesn’t cost you a thing. The one person whom it does cost — and therefore the only one who matters — is the general manager....
by Mitch Albom | Apr 16, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Do you remember the opening to the old TV show “Get Smart”? In it, a secret agent named Maxwell Smart marches purposely into a building, walks into a fake elevator, passes through a series of steel doors, enters a phone booth, dials a special number, then drops...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 9, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Caitlin Clark did it first. Let’s be clear about that. The Iowa women’s basketball star, after hitting yet another 3-point basket in an NCAA tournament game against Louisville, ran her hand in front of her face in a gesture that wrestling fans, athletes and young...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 2, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Everybody loses. We are heading into hell. We are no longer the United States of America. We are the Divided States of Trump. Ask yourself, when word came down on Thursday that Donald Trump would be indicted — the first president in American history to...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 26, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — There is a teacher here at our orphanage who uses a walker to get around. Her legs and hips, twisted from a disease, make walking difficult. But she does it, every school day, going from her home to a van, from a van to the parking lot, from...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 19, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
The best airport in the world, according to a new survey, is in Singapore. The second best is in Qatar. The third is in Tokyo. The fourth is in South Korea. An American airport doesn’t show up on the list until No. 18, behind Rome, Helsinki, Madrid, even...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 5, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
The way the country is going, someday soon, we are all going to be brought into a room where a Democratic leader and a Republican leader sit us down and say, “Kids, we have something to tell you. We’re getting divorced.” At least that’s the suggestion by U.S. Rep....
by Mitch Albom | Feb 26, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
He couldn’t walk, but he moved mountains. He couldn’t speak, but he said so much. He couldn’t write, but he left behind countless messages, and his last one, which appeared a few days ago, showing up in hundreds of email boxes, contained the simple, aching phrase:...
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