Do you know the difference between a donkey and burro? Better yet, a donkey and a mule? How about an ass? Curious minds Monday wondered about such critical issues during our Grand Rapids Press morning ...

Lately I’ve encountered two novels which annoyed me because they treated burro and mule as synonyms, which they are not. The most recent was Abandon, by Blake Crouch; the title of the other one does ...

Men with machetes still hack at tequila-producing agave plants; corn stalks still sway in fields dotted with ancient stone churches. But one element is missing from the timeless, picturesque scene: ...

If you ask around a little among the rural set of folks in America, a good percentage of them will have a mule story to share. It seems that particular beast of burden has influenced lives throughout ...