Michigan
The Political Scene Podcast
Why the Primary System Is “Clearly Failing”
Primary contests have so far done little to change the expected Trump-Biden rematch in November, but they have revealed one troubling sign: voter apathy.
Campaign Chronicles
Roe vs. Trump in the Michigan Midterms
Candidates are betting on abortion outrage and MAGA enthusiasm. Why did one Republican field organizer tell canvassers to think twice about mentioning the former President?
U.S. Journal
The Plan to Make Michigan the Next Space State
Residents are up in arms about a proposed spaceport project, the first of its kind in the Midwest, which would involve launching rockets near the shoreline of Lake Superior.
Dispatch
The Other Side of the River, Revisited
Police in a Michigan resort town have reopened the case of a Black teen’s mysterious death.
American Chronicles
The Making of the New Left
The movement inspired young people to believe that they could transform themselves—and America.
Letter from Trump’s Washington
Trump’s Clown Coup Crisis
We’ve been getting used to painful truths for so long that the awful enormity of the current situation doesn’t hit us in the way it should.
U.S. Journal
Will Trump’s Broken Promises to Working-Class Voters Cost Him the Election?
The President has staged rallies across the Rust Belt, promising a manufacturing revival, but jobs lost to offshoring have increased during his time in office.
Daily Comment
The Growing Threat of American Political Violence
As a fraught election approaches, the potential for domestic terrorism is the highest it has been in decades.
Letter from Michigan
The Militias Against Masks
Groups protesting lockdown measures see the coronavirus pandemic as a pretext for tyranny—and as an opportunity for spreading rage.
The Political Scene Podcast
Gretchen Whitmer on COVID-19, Trump, and the Accusations Against Joe Biden
The Michigan governor on guiding her state through the coronavirus pandemic, her public skirmishes with the President, and her support of Joe Biden.
Satire from The Borowitz Report
Michigan Governor Arrogantly Forcing Residents to Remain Alive
In a blistering takedown, Attorney General William Barr said the governor was “depriving Michiganders of their constitutionally enshrined right to die before their time.”
Election 2020
Bernie Sanders’s Electability Argument Falls Apart in Michigan
In 2016, Michigan was perhaps Sanders’s biggest and most surprising victory. In 2020, it will go down as perhaps his decisive defeat.
Essay
The Scariness of Knocking on a Stranger’s Door While Canvassing
When you spend most of your time surrounded by friends, encountering hostility mostly online, it’s shocking how viscerally frightening it is to come into close contact with people who dislike you.
Amy Davidson Sorkin
Hillary Clinton’s Nineties Dance at the Flint Debate
Daily Cartoon
Daily Cartoon: Thursday, January 21st
Culture Desk
The Shopper Bus
Annals of Technology