Rising tuition and sinking bank accounts are turning the nation's colleges into bastions of inequality.
By Andy Kroll Apr 3, 2009
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The state sets a new record for unemployment. But don't worry Michigan, you're still number one.
By Andrew Leonard
September 18, 2009
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On bended knee, and with promises to retool their operations, the Big Three ask Congress for billions to save the auto industry. They might get it this time.
By Mike Madden
December 5, 2008
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As Washington clashes over a Big Three bailout, it's ignoring the best cure to the automakers' ills: Universal healthcare.
By Edward McClelland
November 26, 2008
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The ACLU is representing five Detroit police officers forced to take sick leave after getting pregnant. Why not just give them desk duty?
By Sarah Hepola
October 15, 2008
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New state jobless numbers fuel GOP criticism of the stimulus. Michigan leads the pack in labor market woe
By Andrew Leonard
July 17, 2009
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Obama and Biden campaign hard in the Wolverine State, where a loss -- although not anticipated -- could spell disaster for Democrats on Nov. 4.
By Mike Madden
September 29, 2008
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Back on the campaign trail in Michigan, this time for Obama, Hillary Clinton urged her former supporters to get behind the Democratic ticket.
By Mike Madden
September 28, 2008
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Democrats respond to a report that the Michigan GOP planned to challenge voters whose homes were foreclosed on.
By Gabriel Winant
September 16, 2008
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With the presidential race in Michigan too close for comfort, it can only help Obama that Detroit's racially divisive and felonious mayor has finally lost his job.
By Edward McClelland
September 4, 2008
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The man the McCain camp used to compare to the antichrist is working hard to win the vice-presidential nod.
By Mike Madden
July 30, 2008
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Salon asks a round table of experts to predict where the presidential election will be won or lost. It's not just about Ohio anymore.
By Thomas F. Schaller
June 24, 2008
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Hillary Clinton's supporters are arguing vehemently against one part of the deal reached to seat the state's delegation.
By Alex Koppelman
June 2, 2008
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After a day of wrangling in Washington, the magic number for the Democratic presidential nomination is now 2,118, and Hillary Clinton nets 24 largely symbolic votes.
By Walter Shapiro
June 1, 2008
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The DNC's Rules and Bylaws Committee came up with a deal to end a long, contentious day, and went against the positions of both Democratic campaigns.
By Alex Koppelman
May 31, 2008
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The DNC's Rules and Bylaws Committee is more than an hour late returning from its lunch break -- could they be working on a deal?
By Alex Koppelman
May 31, 2008
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There's a growing sense that the issue of Florida's delegation is all but settled, but the fight over Michigan's could go late into the night.
By Alex Koppelman
May 31, 2008
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The perception has been that those protesting outside the DNC's Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting were just disaffected Clinton supporters, but that's not what I saw.
By Mark Benjamin
May 31, 2008
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The DNC chair turned to a story from his own life as he asked his party to come together.
By Alex Koppelman
May 31, 2008
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Here's what to expect when Democratic leaders meet to decide the fate of delegates from the two states' outlaw primaries.
By Walter Shapiro
May 30, 2008
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This November, a Democratic victory will probably hinge on the Electoral College votes of a handful of swing states. Howard Dean's pollster examines 17 fall battlegrounds, one by one.
By Paul Maslin
May 16, 2008
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Under a winner-take-all primary system, Hillary Clinton would have a wide lead over Barack Obama -- and enough delegates to clinch the nomination by June.
By Sean Wilentz
April 7, 2008
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Romney scrambles the Republican race by leaning hard on his Michigan roots, and on local nostalgia, for his first primary victory. But will his act play nationally?
By Mike Madden
January 16, 2008
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The presidential hopeful crusades for the auto industry of yore -- and looks awfully out of touch with Michigan's economic pain.
By Edward McClelland
January 15, 2008
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On the stump in Michigan, John McCain campaigns on victory in Iraq. It's a risky strategy, as the recent surge in violence shows.
By Juan Cole
January 15, 2008
Gated communities of learning
California's labor woes continue
Detroit revs up its bailout begging
Detroit isn't dead yet
Can pregnant cops still work?
Obama woos Michigan voters on the economy
Clinton: Yes, we can fix the economy
Obama campaign accuses GOP of planning voter suppression
Kwame Kilpatrick exits, with Barack Obama holding the door
Mitt Romney just wants John McCain to love him
The swing states of 2008
The new math in Florida and Michigan
The fight over Florida and Michigan
How will Barack Obama get to 270?
Why Hillary Clinton should be winning
Mitt Romney, president of Michigan
Is Mitt Romney taking Michigan for a ride?
McCain owns the Iraq war -- for better or worse
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