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A 'Bizarre' and Peculiar Ruling
Originally Posted: 05/04/2012 - 2:00pm | 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 ...

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 ...

Paul's Letter to the 1%
Originally Posted: 05/17/2012 - 10:09am | 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 ...

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 ...

Churches Tread Lightly on Politics in 2012 Election
Originally Posted: 05/22/2012 - 12:14pm | Type: Blog

With the 2012 election less than six months away, congregations are getting the message that Americans want religion out of politics. But that doesn’t mean they plan to keep mum in the public square. Instead, ...

Groundbreaking Report: Exonerees Served More than 10,000 Years in Prison for Crimes They Didn't Commit
Originally Posted: 05/21/2012 - 4:50pm | Type: Blog

A report issued by the National Registry of Exonerations documents nearly 900 individual cases of exoneration. Combined, these (mostly) men and women served more than 10,000 years in prison for crimes they did ...

NGOs React to Obama's New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, Camp David Declaration
Originally Posted: 05/21/2012 - 3:07pm | Type: Blog

developing countries reach this ambitious goal. The pledge to find $1.2 billion for the trust fund to support ...

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