“My heart feels like a house and what’s inside needs to be gutted out – that’s what it feels like on the inside.” I heard these words from man named Thomas* who lived his whole life in New Orleans. A man who had been forced to leave his home in a public housing complex after […]

On July 13th, veteran journalist Bill Moyers invited constitutional experts Bruce Fein and John Nichols onto his weekly show, The Bill Moyers Journal, to discuss impeachment and its applicability to the Bush Administration. Ultimately, the liberal Nichols and the conservative Fein, both citing the U.S. Constitution, argued that Congress should impeach President Bush and Vice […]

“We are people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit.” This sentiment of concern introduced the Port Huron Statement of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in 1962, and it continues to inspire student activism 45 years later.
SDS’s historic manifesto, originating […]

The time has come to take a look at the lack of mass transportation in and around Detroit. With the city in a true economic crisis, measures are being taken, or at least considered, to help the area.
There are many arguments for building a mass transit system between Detroit and Ann Arbor. “I’m all for […]

For all of our global leaders’ struggles in reaching quantifiable benchmarks towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions, at the very least we can find encouragement in the establishment of an ongoing discussion to work towards greenhouse-gas emissions mandates. As evidenced in the recent Gleneagles Dialogue as well as the Asia-Pacific Economic Conference meetings, significant time and […]