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Resurrecting Detroit
Originally Posted: 05/04/2012 - 2:00pm | Type: Magazine Article

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

Personhood for Profit
Originally Posted: 05/04/2012 - 2:00pm | Type: Magazine Article

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

A Farm Grows in Motown
Originally Posted: 05/04/2012 - 2:00pm | Type: Magazine Article

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

An Assault on Local Democracy
Originally Posted: 05/22/2012 - 10:51am | Type: Magazine Article

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

Paul's Letter to the 1%
Originally Posted: 05/22/2012 - 3:11pm | Type: Magazine Article

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 ...

Fairness for Whom?
Originally Posted: 05/17/2012 - 10:23am | Type: Magazine Article

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

A 'Bizarre and Peculiar' Ruling
Originally Posted: 05/24/2012 - 9:43am | Type: Magazine Article

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

The Electorate – Who Are We?
Originally Posted: 05/25/2012 - 2:57pm | Type: Blog

Take Part on Tuesday has created to great infographic that shows who actually votes in America. Some of the highlights: Married people are more likely to vote than widowers, divorcees or those who have never been married. The higher t ...

Alabama’s Indefensible New Immigration Law
Originally Posted: 05/25/2012 - 1:11pm | Type: Blog

Last week, Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley made a morally indefensible decision. He signed HB 658, which intensifies the climate of fear that already hangs over Alabama like low dark clouds before a hurricane. ...

Activists Gather to Plot Defense of ‘Religious Liberty’
Originally Posted: 05/25/2012 - 9:54am | Type: Blog

U.S. Catholic bishops have used the Obama administration’s contraception mandate as Exhibit A in their high-stakes defense of "religious freedom." But it’s not just the bishops who are fuming, and it ...

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