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Interactive map: Vaccination rates across Michigan
Click on a county to see how rates changed overall and in public and private schools.
Bridge asked readers to swap news sources for a week. The world answered. (slideshow)
It wasn’t always comfortable. But more than 200 brave souls from around the country (and six nations) switched to news feeds with a different political viewpoint. A few have yet to switch back.
Cancer diagnosis brings clarity to one Trump voter
In Harbor Springs, Cynthia Shafer battles illness and political assumptions
Interactive map: What political bubble do you live in?
Bridge creates Michigan’s first precinct-level map showing how your neighborhood or community voted in the presidential election.
A conservative and two liberals swapped news feeds. It didn’t end well.
The “un-American” New York Times and the “nightmare” Drudge Report: A Troy conservative and two Ann Arbor liberals discover just how wide the news divide has become.
Take two hits of Maui Wowie and call me in the morning: Baby boomers in the age of medical marijuana
Bad knees and all, a Bridge writer joins the middle-aged rush to marijuana dispensaries across Michigan
Pupusas, locked doors, and a return to the shadows for one undocumented family
They’ve been called bad hombres and job stealers. Wilfredo Diaz and his family say they just want to be called Americans.
Amid strikes and spares, Muslim nervousness that the game has changed
Four couples, two lanes, 10 frames – when the president makes you feel unwelcome, sometimes you just have to go bowling.
Meet Michigan's divided: Hussein and Mariam Charara
Meet Hussein and Mariam Charara, from Dearborn.
Meet Michigan's divided: John Hulett
Meet John Hulett, from Sunfield, 25 miles west of Lansing.
Meet Michigan's divided: Wilfredo Diaz
Meet Wilfredo Diaz, from Wyoming, Mich.
Meet Michigan's divided: Cynthia Shafer
Meet Cynthia Shafer, from Harbor Springs.
Meet Michigan's divided: Asandi Conner
Meet Asandi Conner, from Detroit.
Meet Michigan's divided: Ben Shomo
Meet Ben Shomo, from Traverse City.
About the project “Michigan Divided”
Bridge is following 11 Michigan people and families throughout 2017 to try to pierce the bubbles in which they, and the rest of us, live.
Meet Michigan's divided
Can 11 passionate Michigan residents and families reach across the political and cultural chasms that too often divide our state?
An election. An inauguration. A divided state.
The gulf between us is bigger than ever. How do we find common ground?
Meet Michigan's divided: Dave and Sherri Frohriep
Meet Dave and Sherri Frohreip from Newberry, in the U.P.
Meet Michigan's divided: Aric Knuth and Jim Leija
Meet Aric Knuth and Jim Leija, from Ann Arbor.
Meet Michigan's divided: Tom Herbon
Meet Tom Herbon, from Troy.