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Tomorrow marks 25 years since the twin towers came down. What came next reshaped this country. The Patriot Act. Two wars. Here at home, a registration program fingerprinted, photographed and questioned more than 80,000 men and boys largely from Muslim-majority countries. It didn't produce a single terrorism conviction. Almost none of that machinery was ever dismantled. So, we're wondering: How has American politics changed — and how hasn't it — since September of 2001. Ali Harb is a freelance journalist based in Washington D.C. He covers American politics, U.S. foreign policy, and politics in the Middle East. He spoke with The Metro's Robyn Vincent.

More than 450,000 DTE customers lost power in last week's storms. Michigan requires a $42 daily credit — but in the biggest outages, it doesn't start until day four. Rep. Rashida Tlaib joins host Robyn Vincent to discuss the rule, the regulators who wrote it, and her bill to raise pollution fines on utilities that keep raising rates. Have thoughts? Email the show at [email protected]

The Recovery and Resilience Festival in Wyandotte is an upcoming music and art festival focusing on recovery from drugs and alcohol. Festival goers can expect free activities such as creative writing workshops and more. Christopher Tait, director of Passenger Recovery, and Michael Balcom, director of Be Well My Friends, are the co-founders of the event.They join The Metro to share their personal experiences that led to them placing sobriety center stage at the Recovery and Resilience Festival on Sunday, Sept. 20.

For more than a century, the U.S. government took Native children from their homes, cut their hair, forbade their languages and set out to erase who they were. It called them schools and Michigan had several. Reporting on them in 2021, Odawa Anishinaabe journalist Sierra Biidaaban Nadeau found 10 of her own relatives in the enrollment records — her great-grandfather, his siblings, and generations before them. Her book, "What the Ancestors Say," is out Sept. 29. Nadeau joins host Robyn Vincent to talk about what she found, who told her their stories, and what a state does with a history it has barely acknowledged. Have thoughts? Email the show at [email protected]

The Season Fair is a free non-profit contemporary art fair. This second edition of the fair is titled "Detroit Presents: Other Routes," exploring how six featured artists came into their craft and how their personal journeys shape their art, down to the non-traditional materials they use. Amani Olu is the founder and curatorial director of Season Fair. Oshun Williams is a featured fine artist on the Detroit Presents Artist Platform. They join The Metro not only to describe the event, but also emphasize the importance of investing in art.  The fair is at The Shepherd in Detroit, on Sept. 11-13.