FEATURE
Northwest Indiana’s Slow Burn
Water, oil, and industrial volcanoes in Indiana's Calumet region, along the southern shores of Lake Michigan. An excerpt from "Rust Belt Chicago."
Featured
PROFILE
The Word Collector
For nearly fifty years, Ray Young Bear has been assembling poems, novels, and essays on the Meskwaki Tribal Settlement. Now, at sixty-eight, he just might be doing his best work yet.
FIELD NOTES
A Short History of Cleveland’s Flats
The Flats is now touted as an entertainment district, but this development comes at the cost of forgetting Cleveland’s industrial past along the banks of the Cuyahoga.
DEPT. OF HISTORY
“Tired of Going to Funerals”: The 1972 National Black Political Convention in Gary
Gary, Indiana, hosted the landmark assembly, which led to the formation of a National Black Agenda.
THE ENVIRONMENT
The Future of the Great Lakes
In an era of climate change and corporate extraction, what will it take to manage the Great Lakes?
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More Stories
Nuclear Power
A writer remembers her relationship with her father, an inspector of nuclear power plants.
How to Find Home
A new poem by Kelly Garriott Waite.
Urban Ecology and Animism in the Landscape of the Great Lakes
An interview with Matt Stansberry and Gavin Van Horn.
The Polish Christmas Eve Feast that Helped Me Find Home
"I’ll never lose Wigilia because it’s not just a tradition; it’s a way of being."
Losing the Farm
"The twentieth century in America brought dramatic changes to the farm...one of which was the abstraction of my family and me from our roots on the land."
Beyond “Trump Country”
An excerpt from 55 Strong: Inside the West Virginia Teachers' Strike.
The Teahouse
Siddhartha and Billy Corgan walk into in a teahouse north of Chicago.
Is Food the Key to This Small Pennsylvania Town’s Economic Revival?
Bellevue, PA is ripe for a resurgence. Can it be sustainable?
The Spirit of Sam Jones
"Among the giants on Saginaw Street in downtown Flint [Michigan] stands my Uncle Melton. Chances are you won’t see him. But I can assure you, he’s there."
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When a piece of wall in Detroit, adorned with graffiti by the street artist Banksy, was removed and placed in an art gallery, debate blossomed. Read More.
