An Idea on the Land

This is the final part of our series An Idea on the Land. Here's where you can find Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. On a chilly morning, 118 autumns ago, the…

If you’ve been listening to our series An Idea on the Land, then you’ve heard the voice of Willie Jennings. He’s a professor at Yale Divinity school and…

Today on Stateside, we get an explainer on Proposal 2. That's the anti-gerrymandering ballot proposal that would change how the maps for legislative and…

This is part three of our series "An Idea on the Land." Part one is here. Part two is here.It’s the summer of 1831. A young French writer arrives in…

It was 1823. The land of Michigan wasn’t yet a state. The indigenous people far outnumbered the white settlers. The Erie Canal hadn’t opened. The flood of…

Today on Stateside, reporter Chad Livengood recaps the most recent debates between incumbent U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow and her Republican challenger…

We are of the dirt.That’s what Willie Jennings believes.“My mother was a gardener,” he says. Each spring, as she got her garden ready, she would spray…