Racial and Social Justice

Detroit registered at just over 700,000 people, down from 1.2 million in 1980. Those that remain face ...

Vincent Miller Seeing corporations as people, are we making ourselves over in their image? ARE CORPORATIONS “ ...

Korla Masters Detroiters often use the phoenix rising from the ashes as a metaphor for the city's resilience. Worms might be just as ...

Bill Wylie-Kellermann Michigan's "Emergency Manager" law and Detroit's future. A big chan ...

Eighteen characters are divided into the four factions Paul describes in 1 Corinthians 1:10-12 ... then curtails the privileges of all elite men in 6:12-20. They say, “all things are lawful for me.” The context ... support from the Corinthians (9:1-7, 12, 15). Paul knows it would come from the church patrons, making him ...

E.J. Dionne Jr. The Supreme Court's decision in the Citizens United case didn't actually make corporations into people, but it ...

Jim Rice Fairness matters, especially for people on society’s margins—and that conviction goes far beyond tax equity to every aspect of p ...

For  The Washington Post ,  Jonathan Capehart  fears that the Occupy movement won't survive if it doesn't adapt: If Occupy doesn’t use this time to get actively involved in political process, it will never move from protest to pow ...

Writing for  Tom's Dispatch  and  The Huffington Post ,  Christopher Hellman  and  Mattea Kramer  estimate what the U.S. really spends on national security: National security accounts for one quarter of every dollar the federal ...

As reported by  Salon :  Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, compared immigrants to dogs at a town hall meeting yesterday, telling constituents that the U.S. should pick only the best immigrants the way one chooses the “pick of the litter.” Read th ...