One Michigan Family's Freedom Papers
The painful history of chattel slavery in the United States hasn’t left behind much of a paper trail – and what we have is vague and inhumane. The incompleteness itself of this documentation speaks vo...
5 Mar 202416min
MI Received an Opioid Epidemic Settlement. Now What?
Michigan is set to receive around $1.5 billion dollars over the next 18 years from a settlement with pharmaceutical companies that produce and distribute opioids. Half of the money coming to the state...
4 Mar 202419min
100,000+ Michiganders Voted "Uncommitted"
In Michigan's primary election, more than 13% of people who voted on the Democratic ballot cast an “uncommitted” vote, which was enough votes to be awarded a couple delegates at the Democratic Nationa...
1 Mar 202412min
Michigan's 2024 Primary Results
Early voting had been going on for a while, but Michigan had our in-person primary elections on Tuesday. To no surprise, the winners were Joe Biden and Donald Trump. However, there’s always a lot to t...
29 Feb 202412min
What If Detroit Stayed Détroit?
“The Future,” a new speculative novel by the Montreal-based writer Catherine Leroux, reimagines what a Francophone Detroit would be like today if the French had never ceded the city to the British in ...
28 Feb 202414min
AI Can Survey Our Opinions on Climate Change
What can AI tell us about public opinions on climate change? Researchers at the University of Michigan are experimenting with new technology to measure public attitudes by using social media posts on ...
27 Feb 202416min
Winter Birding with Spring in Mind
In February, the animal we turn to as a nation to tell us about the heralding of spring is the groundhog. But birders know that the real messenger of the changing seasons lives in the sky. Birds that ...
26 Feb 202419min
What "Vote Uncommitted" Means To These Michiganders, Pt. 2
Yesterday on the podcast we talked to two organizers from the “Vote Uncommitted” campaign among Arab American and other voters in Michigan. Today we’ll get analysis on that movement from Detroit Free ...
23 Feb 202413min
