Under the closing credits of Wall-e, Pixar’s 2008 epic robot love story, interstellar computer-generated images give way to the tale of a people, returning to their home planet

I was going to write about the summer I was an intern for Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick — about being the only white person in the Mayor’s Office of Community Affairs (MOCA), about

Against a backdrop of a former mayor possibly being sentenced to serve time in a federal prison and a future mayor to work under the likely backdrop of an emergency manager —

My friends Ben Ketai and Ryan Lewis created Chosen — a six-part series for Crackle, Sony’s online platform — that you can (and should) watch online now. I interviewed Ben

By most accounts, the world is not going to end in the year ahead. It will, however, get a little hotter, noisier, costlier and more crowded. If only there were a climate-controlled,

With the presidential campaign a few weeks behind us and the next one at least as many away, I find myself gravitating back to Election Day. Not because of the results or the deeper

According to a man with a beard on the Internet, Shakespeare invented more than 1,700 words. I am no Shakespeare — on my best day I’m scarcely a Marlowe — but I think we

The only things in life more stressful than moving are — in ascending order — illness, divorce, death and helping your parents move hastily out of your childhood home. So,

I was a student at Wayne State University for 90 minutes back in 2004. My thinking? Some non-degree coursework would keep my newfound academic bachelorhood sharp, whether I went

In the summer, we scatter, we soak, we sizzle, we shvitz. And sometimes, we just need to sit still in the dark. One minute, you’re sweating into your Doritos® Locos Tacos Supreme