Frackland
Documenting fracking infrastructure across the Great Lakes region from 15,000 feet.
Can Agriculture Save Pollinators?
A Wisconsin beekeeper searches for solutions on the farm.
Addressing Trauma at the Community Level in Chicago
The organizations changing the way we think about treatment.
A Utopia at Niagara Falls
By Christian Ruhl In the late nineteenth century, a battle raged over the future of Niagara Falls. Nikola Tesla and [...]
Recovering the Indigenous Roots of Michigan’s Norton Mounds
By Marjorie Steele Two hundred years ago, when the spring floods would recede from the banks of the Grand River, [...]
Pot Still Won’t Be Legal In Ohio For Awhile, But At The Cleveland School Of Cannabis Students Are Already Hitting The Books
The building is one of those beige, ’80s office numbers, and through the half-shut blinds, cars are whizzing past on Interstate 480. It’s a beautiful day in April, and in the darkened classroom, the teacher is doing a midterm review with the students, going through slides of vocabulary and textbook photos.
Michigan’s Primary Has Been Heralded As The Next Test For The “Blue Wave,” But What Does It Mean For Muslims In Michigan?
“Everybody let’s imagine something together. This can be our great moment. It’s nine days from now, Aug 7. Election night. There are headlines all around the world. We see them on CNN, on MSNBC, even on Fox News. “And what are we going to see?”
LeBron’s Legacy: The King Hits The Road (Again) But This Time He’s Leaving A Bit Of Himself Behind
The first time LeBron James left the Cleveland Cavaliers, the NBA team that plays just forty miles up the road from his hometown of Akron, he was savaged as “callous,” “heartless,” and “cowardly.” And that’s just what team owner Dan Gilbert called him in an angry open letter ...
In Appalachia, shifting political winds have forced Republican lawmakers to expand Medicaid. Could this be the start of a trend?
Mary White had noticed her knee hurting on and off for a while before she blew it out last October. “I turned around to go down the steps after I locked the door, and it kicked out the side and tore that ligament in there,” she said. White, who turns 64 in August, does not have health insurance. Her husband is on Social Security and Medicare, and between that and her slightly better-than-minimum-wage income at the Binns-Counts Community Center in Clinchco, Virginia, White doesn’t quite qualify for Medicaid.
In Southeast Ohio, an anarchist skate park considers its future
VIEW PHOTO ESSAY By Matt Richmond Photography by Michael McElroy Twenty years in, change [...]
On what it means to be a Palestinian living — and protesting — in the American Midwest
By Sarah Macaraeg Photo above by Carolina Hidalgo for University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis Public Radio This May, hours [...]
In Appalachia’s ‘Alcohol Alley,’ booze purveyors say a pipeline is threatening their industry
By Dave Infante You could mistake the view from Bold Rock for a Bob Ross painting, if not for the [...]