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No one builds worlds like Ian McDonald. In Luna: Wolf Moon, he gives us a lunar colony ruled by five brutal, powerful dynasties, orbiting an Earth wracked by scarcity wars and political squabbling.

When NPR's movie critic sat down to write this year's best-of list, he kept seeing matched sets: two cinematic head trips, two brutal historical epics and even two riveting mortgage crisis flicks.

Even as overall aid increases, the share of that money going to education has stagnated — leaving least developed countries in the lurch.

Supporters of Amir Hekmati held an art exhibit and fundraiser this weekend in Detroit.Hekmati’s family is stepping up its public campaign to free the…

A Dutch artist says Ontario should be using his giant duck instead of a similar Johnny-come-lately giant duck. But the skirmish raises bigger questions about copycats and public art.

There’s a legend that Secretary of State Dean Rusk summed up what happened in the Cuban Missile Crisis by saying, “We were eyeball to eyeball, and I think…

Every year business minds from around the world come together at the Mackinac Policy Conference to help shape the economic future of Detroit and the state…

After Proposal 1 was voted down earlier this month, the message from voters seemed to be that they wanted a bill that simply addressed road funding. No…

The images of sludgy-looking green water coming out of taps this summer in Ohio and parts of Southeast Michigan are hard to forget. More than 400,000…

The Children's Health Insurance Program drew bipartisan support for two decades. After brinkmanship over the federal budget, an agreement to end the shutdown has assured CHIP funding for six years.