Michigan in the news

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  “This operation is not a magic pill. It’s a tool to be used in combination with a proper diet and physical activity. Prior to surgery, patients should be taught how to eat, and after surgery they need to learn how much they can eat before feeling sick. Most people can tolerate any food in small amounts, but they may never be able to eat a full Thanksgiving dinner again,” said Anne Ehlers, assistant professor of surgery, noting that only one-half of 1 percent of people eligible for bariatric surgery currently undergo it.

  The New York Times
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  While some may call summer 2020 a turning point for the country — with a raging pandemic and surging activism — Lydia Kelow-Bennett, assistant professor of Afroamerican and African studies, likens it to a broken leg that continues to heal improperly, and the only way to fully repair the limb is to break it again: “We keep trying to heal these breaks but they’re not set right in the first place, and so the reason then why these issues keep coming up, the reason why we have not addressed racial justice effectively in this country, is because we never set the break.” 

  NBC News
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  “Although the election is not technically until November 3, election season is already well under way—most significantly in the dozens of election-litigation cases that are determining how people can vote, whether they can vote, and whether their votes will be counted. … While election law and voting rights might seem to have become nakedly partisan, only one side is actually favoring democracy,” wrote Leah Litman, assistant professor of law.

  The Atlantic