Flint

Flint's water crisis contributed to a national image of the city as a site of intractable poverty. Local business people are working to to change that perception.

The celebrity's foundation will donate water filtration systems to the Michigan city. But what does that say about how the city has handled its water crisis?

According to a new study, wealthy and educated citizens could be the first to go.

The Michigan journalist talks about her new book, the state of Flint's water, and how we reckon with a negligent government.

The longest-running civil rights case against the EPA has just come to a bittersweet end.

Governor Rick Snyder announced Friday that the city's water supply is safe for residents.

New research suggests that, when officials in Flint, Michigan, didn't properly treat their water, they created the conditions for a deadly bacteria to grow.

In the mid-1980s, a raft of new research found America's children also ingested lead from paint chips and dust, shifting the public focus from tap water to paint.

Vague regulations let government officials hide drinking water contamination from the public.

Michigan's voters decided to scrap the kind of super-empowered emergency managers who made questionable decisions in Flint—but state lawmakers found a way to revive the program.

Lessons about Flint’s long history of dirty water—from 1873 to the latest revelations about toxic taps.

The crisis in Flint, Michigan, reveals the dangerous downside of treating public safety as just another line item.

Looking at the Flint water crisis from a different perspective.

Thanks to the Flint water crisis, the city's kids could experience terrible, long-lasting consequences.

High chloride levels are problematic.

More troubling news in Michigan.

Flint made many mistakes, but its haphazard lead monitoring system was the worst of them.

Children in 11 municipalities and two counties in New Jersey have higher levels of lead in their blood than children in Flint, Michigan.

A new report on lead contamination in an Ohio city underscores the severity (and ubiquity) of the town's health disaster.

The Rust Belt city's disaster is a sign of things to come.

Toxic tap water is just not acceptable in 2015 (in Flint, Michigan, or anywhere else).

We canvassed the world of the social and behavioral sciences, looking for rising stars whose careers promise to make a lasting mark. We'll be profiling the top 30 throughout the month of April.

New technology is nudging Americans to be more generous at the till. For now.

The dominant view of dying cities is outdated and wrong, and journalists are largely responsible for the geographic misconceptions.