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POLITICS
Cleveland After Serial
The podcast highlighted issues in the city's criminal justice system. Where do residents go from here?
Cleveland After Serial
The podcast highlighted issues in the city's criminal justice system. Where do residents go from here?
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ENVIRONMENT
“Sun in My Eyes”: Pittsburgh’s Pandemic Landscapes
Photographs of landscapes from the city of Pittsburgh over the course of the pandemic.
COMMUNITY
There Is This We
Portraits and reflections on the legacy of Black women artists and arts workers in Chicago.
CULTURAL STUDIES
CITY LIFE
A Public Art Project Tackles Unceded Land in Chicago
'Whose Lakefront' marks the Indigenous history of the Lake Michigan coast.
A Public Art Project Tackles Unceded Land in Chicago
'Whose Lakefront' marks the Indigenous history of the Lake Michigan coast.
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How Ohio Created the NFL—and the 2022 Super Bowl Matchup
The story of this weekend's game runs through Canton, Cleveland, and Cincinnati.
A Locals’ Guide to Gary, Indiana
Plan your trip to the heart of the Rust Belt.
Work With Us: Creative Director [Remote, Part-Time]
Belt is hiring a part-time creative director to help shape the look and feel of the publication.
Event Video: Indigenous Rust Belt
Watch the full video of our February 2 event on Indigenous life and history in the Rust Belt.
Pittsburgh’s Broken Bridge is a Warning Sign
The now-collapsed Fern Hollow Bridge is a marker of what’s at stake in the infrastructure fight—and how far we have to go.
Treaty of Mendota
A poem of erasure.
The Ohio Bribery Scandal Behind “The Worst Energy Policy in the Country”
Hidden recorders, dirty politicians, and the corrupt companies that financed it all.
Faith in Movement
Andy Warhol, the Rust Belt, and me.
The Ohio Organization Rekindling Indigenous Foodways
How 'Native American street food' is helping to keep tribal cultures alive.
Wisconsin’s Shipwreck Coast
America’s newest National Marine Sanctuary tells the tales of the Great Lakes.
Are You Staying in South Bend?
On identity, possibilities, and giving my hometown a chance.
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From the Archives
Rightsizing Thanksgiving in the Rust Belt
As the jobs have vanished, as education and employment have lured our young people out-of-state and overseas, our holidays have been transformed as well.
Fear and Loathing on Euclid Avenue: Dispatches from the RNC in CLE
“I’m not here because I agree with everybody.”
Recipe: Pittsburgh’s Turkey Devonshire
Make it like the professionals at Union Grill.
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