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All Things Considered Host Robert Siegel Joins Detroit Today to Talk Retirement

NPR NPR host Robert Siegel retires this week after 30 years hosting All Things Considered. Siegel signs off on Friday, ending...

Michigan Politics Could Get A Lot of National Attention in 2018

Rick Pluta/MPRN It’s 2018 -- and that means it’s an election year. It's already shaping up to be an especially...

Looking at the Year Ahead in National Politics with NPR’s Tamara Keith

Jake Neher/WDET President Donald Trump kicked off the new year with a controversial tweet, this time throwing into question the United...

Detroit Poet, Musician Jessica Care Moore on Representing the City in 2017

StoryCorps Jessica Care Moore is a poet from Detroit who, years ago, caught the attention of an elite circle of...

POLITICO Magazine’s Tim Alberta on Being A Political Reporter Through First Year of Trump

POLITICO POLITICO Magazine feature reporter Tim Alberta covers national politics in Washington. In that role, he had the first lengthy...

Author, Historian Heather Ann Thompson Talks Winning Pulitzer in 2017

Jake Neher/WDET In April this year, author and historian Heather Ann Thompson won the Pulitzer Prize for her chilling re-telling of...

Former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade Talks About Life-Changing 2017

Jake Neher/WDET 2017 has been an interesting year -- and there are several people from Michigan who have had standout...

‘Jon Stewart of the Arab World’ Bassem Youssef Talks Satire in 2017

Youtube This conversation originally aired on Detroit Today with Stephen Henderson on November 6, 2017 He’s been called the Jon...

Historian Tom Sugrue on Detroit’s Ascension, Decline and ‘Detroit’ the Film

Jake Neher/WDET This conversation originally aired on Detroit Today with Stephen Henderson on July 26, 2017 On Tuesday night, there...

It’s A Festivus Miracle! Hear Detroit Today’s 2017 Airing of Grievances

Jake Neher/WDET Saturday marks the coming of Festivus, the made-up holiday celebrated by the character Frank Costanza on Seinfeld. The...

Sen. Gary Peters on Tax Overhaul: ‘This Is Not Good for Middle Class Americans’

Jake Neher/WDET Republicans in Congress could send President Trump a major tax overhaul this week. The U.S. House approved a...

What Could GOP Tax Plan, Budget Impasse Mean for Low-Income Kids’ Health Funding?

Jake Neher/WDET Lost in many conversations about what’s happening in Washington right now is the possible fate of funding for...