History
Crossing Over
From "Under Purple Skies: The Minneapolis Anthology."
Rust Belt Independents
How one Indiana community rejected Trumpism.
The Fate of the Scrappers
The Mahoning Valley Scrappers have been a symbol of the region's comeback narrative. Now, Minor League Baseball may phase them out.
The Legend of Big Ole
How one monument came to be at the center of Minnesota’s imagined white past.
Fit to Kill: A Reactionary Existence (Part One)
An excerpt from "Life Sentences: Writings from Inside an American Prison."
Lost and Gain
An excerpt from "Life Sentences: Writings from Inside an American Prison."
Edith Farnsworth’s House
"Each season she arrived, / steering her car through uncut grasses / against the wishes / of the imposing architect"
Mike’s Big Ditch
For decades, Mike Kirwan was the loudest advocate for a proposed canal from the Ohio River to Lake Erie. But he couldn't close the deal.
Power and Possibility in Dayton’s Oregon District
An elegy for a wounded place.
Crossing in Miller (1889)
"a man stands, balancing, // one foot on one line and the other on another, touching the pulse / of two emergent powers"
Rust Belt history
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