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In his new memoir, Allen Kurzweil goes looking for his childhood tormentor — and discovers he's served time for involvement in an international fraud scheme so wild and colorful, it could be a movie.

Today on Stateside:Michigan's legislators will be back in Lansing tomorrow. The day will bring committee meetings including attention to a pair of bills…

Detroit bankruptcy mediation begins today“The mediation portion of Detroit’s bankruptcy starts today. The city and its creditors will try to find common…

This past Monday, Michigan Radio's Sarah Cwiek reported on the growing controversy surrounding Detroit's light rail project. Reports indicated that…

In the Islamic Republic, a woman is typically not allowed to sing solos in public unless she performs for an all-female audience and is accompanied by an all-female band. The Iranian singer known as Hani is pursuing her dream in Iraq.

The Next IdeaEvery American family has a genesis story about how they came to be in this country: escaping a cruel despot, searching for elusive riches,…

The 15-year project wasn't a flight of fancy. Biologists used a plane to successfully teach many young, captive-bred whooping cranes to migrate cross-country. But the birds aren't reproducing well.

The Next Idea"Be the change that you wish to see in the world." —Mahatma GandhiThis quote resonates deeply with me these days, because in my Detroit…

Michigan testing scores are treading water. Ron French and Chastity Pratt Dawsey of Bridge Magazine traveled across the country to study states that are…

Since Superstorm Sandy, officials in Washington, D.C., have gotten a clear idea of what would happen in a worst-case storm scenario. Key government buildings and tourist sites like the Smithsonian museums are particularly vulnerable to flooding. So federal and local officials are taking steps to protect them.