What I Saw in Flint What I Saw in Flint
Residents have lost faith in the system, but they are also ready to fight.
Mar 21, 2016 / Rep. Keith Ellison
Flint Is the Predicted Outcome of Michigan’s Long, Dangerous History With ‘Emergency Managers’ Flint Is the Predicted Outcome of Michigan’s Long, Dangerous History With ‘Emergency Managers’
For years, I have joined voters, other elected officials, and even courts in warning that the right-wing takeover of local government would end this way.
Feb 17, 2016 / Feature / Rep. John Conyers
Flint Isn’t the Only Place With Racism in the Water Flint Isn’t the Only Place With Racism in the Water
Environmental racism is an issue of political power: Polluters and waste sites are placed where politicians expect little or no political backlash.
Feb 9, 2016 / Tracey Ross and Danyelle Solomon
Water Privatizers Have Their Eye on Flint’s Lead Crisis Water Privatizers Have Their Eye on Flint’s Lead Crisis
To disaster capitalists, Flint’s sick children present an opportunity for privatization and profit.
Feb 8, 2016 / Michelle Chen
‘Can Anybody Tell Me Why the Governor of Michigan Is Not Here Today?’ ‘Can Anybody Tell Me Why the Governor of Michigan Is Not Here Today?’
Flint residents rode buses overnight to tell Congress about how the water crisis has upended their lives. Their governor was conspicuously absent.
Feb 3, 2016 / Zoë Carpenter
How the EPA Has Failed to Challenge Environmental Racism in Flint—and Beyond How the EPA Has Failed to Challenge Environmental Racism in Flint—and Beyond
Since the early 1990s, the agency has received over 300 discrimination complaints. It’s never once issued a formal finding of a violation.
Jan 28, 2016 / Zoë Carpenter
The Poisoning of Flint The Poisoning of Flint
Decades of catastrophic austerity policies and ruinous government fealty to corporate interests are jeopardizing the people of Michigan—and the rest of the country.
Jan 19, 2016 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Invisible-Hand-of-the-Free-Market Man in Flint Invisible-Hand-of-the-Free-Market Man in Flint
We’ve all got to make a few sacrifices for austerity.
Jan 19, 2016 / Tom Tomorrow
Outcry Over the Austerity Crisis in Flint Grows Outcry Over the Austerity Crisis in Flint Grows
Details of how Flint’s water was contaminated, and of how pleas for help were neglected, are leading to calls for inquiries, arrest, resignation.
Jan 18, 2016 / John Nichols
In Flint, Michigan, Overpriced Water is Causing People’s Skin to Erupt in Rashes and Hair to Fall Out. In Flint, Michigan, Overpriced Water is Causing People’s Skin to Erupt in Rashes and Hair to Fall Out.
As the nation’s infrastructure falls apart, water is becoming more expensive and less safe.
Jul 16, 2015 / Curt Guyette