Beginning the 2020-2021 school year, Article of the Weeks will be shared in Google Docs. Check out the current list here.
Below are links to Article of the Week PDFs since 2015.
2019-2020
- “Stephen King Is Sorry You Feel Like You’re Stuck In A Stephen King Novel” by Terry Gross for NPR’s Fresh Air
- “I Can’t Believe I’m Going to Say This, but I Would Rather Be at School” by Henry Dodd for the New York Times
- “Michigan school districts, firms churn out masks with 3-D printers” by Jennifer Chambers for The Detroit News
- “Tekashi 6ix9ine will serve the rest of his sentence at home because of coronavirus risk” by Dakin Andone and Gregory Lemos for CNN
- “Doctors turn to Twitter and TikTok to share coronavirus news” by Kaya Yurieff for CNN Business
- “Oakland U to Beaumont: Use our campus if needed” by Kim Kozlowski for The Detroit News
- “How the NBA moved so quickly on coronavirus testing” by Ramona Shelburne for ESPN
- “Teen sports drama ‘All American’ is the most popular TV show on Netflix right now” by Travis Clark for Business Insider
- “The Dos and Don’ts of ‘Social Distancing’” by Kaitlyn Tiffany for the Atlantic
- “Garth Brooks Honored Football Player Barry Sanders and Many Confused It With a Bernie Sanders Endorsement” by Madeleine Carlisle for TIME
- “Is Black History Month still relevant? ‘Absolutely yes’ one historian says” by Keith Harriston for NBC News
- “The Kansas City Chiefs’ racist “Arrowhead Chop” has flown under the radar. Not anymore.” by Rhonda LeValdo for Vox
- “Katie Sowers Will Make History As The First Woman To Coach At The Super Bowl” by Elana Lyn Gross for ForbesWomen
- “PETA protests Starbucks over vegan milk upcharge” by Alexis Ware for WILX
- “Virginia gun-rights rally concludes peacefully despite earlier fears of extremist violence” by Veronica Stracqualursi and Karl de Vries for CNN
- “The Springs Ran Dry. Then This Australian Town Burned” by Thomas Fuller and Isabella Kwai for the New York Times
- “Random drug testing of student athletes approved by Michigan school district” by Kayla Miller for mLive
- “MRIs show screen time linked to lower brain development in preschoolers” by Sandee LaMotte for CNN
- “OK Boomer”
- “‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations” by Taylor Lorenz for the New York Times
- “OK Boomer, OK Millennial, we need to talk” by Jill Filipovic and Paul Callan for CNN: Opinion
- Flint and Security Cameras
- “Cameras installed in Flint neighborhoods with high crime” by Jake May for mLive
- “Flint considering ordinance requiring security cameras at certain businesses” by Ann Pierret for ABC12
- “7 Ways to Balance Reading Multiple Books at Once” by Team Epic Reads for Epic Reads
- “Vontaze Burfict was the ‘no-brainer’ that backfired on Raiders” by Paul Gutierrez for ESPN
- “Restaurant adds sensory tool kits to help diners” by Ashley Graham for WLNS
- “Ms. Monopoly is supposed to empower women. Critics say it does the opposite” by Annie Nova for CNBC
- “New iPhone’s ‘trypophobic’ design disturbs people with fear of holes” by Amy Woodyatt for CNN
- “Trump is diverting $3.6 billion from the US military to fund his border wall” by Alex Ward for Vox
- “Antonio Brown in Oakland: Helmets, frost bite, fines and release” by Paul Gutirrez for ESPN
- “TSA bans Disney’s bomb-shaped Star Wars Coca-Cola bottles from all flights” by Chris Gates from Digital Trends
- “MDHHS investigating reports of respiratory illnesses linked to e-cigarettes and vaping” by Alyssa Burr from mLive
2018 – 2019
- “Teenagers Who Vandalized Black Schoolhouse Are Ordered to Read Books” by Christine Hauser for the New York Times
- “Why You Should Study Shakespeare” by Lori Gray for UC Berkeley Extension: Voices Blog
- “When Kids Realize Their Whole Life Is Already Online” by Taylor Lorenz for the Atlantic
- “‘Epic fail’ won’t change Nike, but it could change college sports” by Marlene Towns for the Hill
- “The Rise of Dystopian Fiction: From Soviet Dissidents to ’70s Paranoia to Murakami” by Yvonne Shiau for Electric Lit on Medium
- “Airbus Beluga XL spreads its wings at long last” by Maureen O’Hare for CNN
- Student choice of topic about the school shooting at Majory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14, 2018.
- “Iconic Sweethearts won’t be available this Valentine’s Day” by Brandon Champion for mLive
- Super Bowl LIII
- “Microsoft’s Super Bowl ad is all about the Xbox Adaptive controller” by Tom Warren for The Verge
- Student choice of topic
- “Whitmer: Flint needs bottled water until pipes replaced” by Jonathan Oosting for the Detroit News.
- “Burger King mocks Trump over misspelled tweet: ‘We’re all out of “hamberders”‘” by Aris Folley for The Hill
- TIME Person of the Year
- “Who Will Be TIME’s Person of the Year for 2018? See the Shortlist” by Suyin Haynes for TIME
- “‘Time’ Person Of The Year For 2018: Journalists Fighting ‘War on Truth'” by Bill Chappell for NPR
- “All The Top Streaming Artists On Spotify In 2018 Are Men” by Courtney E. Smith for Refinery29
- Holiday Classics Sparking Controversies
- “‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,’ Charlie Brown and other holiday classics sparking controversy” by Madeline Farber for Fox News
- “Some people are upset about ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer'” by Michael Brice-Saddler for The Washington Post
- “7 Ways to Balance Reading Multiple Books at Once” by Team Epic Reads for Epic Reads
- General Motors to Close Plants and Cut Jobs
- “G.M. to Idle Plants and Cut Thousands of Jobs as Sales Slow” by Neal E. Boudette and Ian Austen for The New York Times
- “GM to kill Chevrolet Volt, Cruze, Impala as Americans ditch passenger cars” by Nathan Bomey for USA Today
- Caravan News Coverage
- “Newt Gingrich: Stop the caravan and build the wall to keep deadly drugs out and save lives” by Newt Gingrich for Fox News
- “Bandaged feet, bleeding hands, violent coughs: The caravan takes its toll” by Michael E. Miller for The Washington Post
- “It’s ‘time change’ time. Did you remember to fall back?” by Doug Criss and Susannah Cullinane for CNN
- Halloween trick or treating age limits
- “Should there be an age-limit for Halloween trick-or-treating?” by Tanda Gmiter for mLive
- “These States Have Put Legal Age Limits on Trick or Treaters” by Chris Morris for Fortune
- “Researchers create new font designed to boost your memory” by Taylor Telford for The Washington Post
- UN Climate Change Panel
- “UN Panel Warns Drastic Action Needed to Stave Off Climate Change” by Timothy Puko for The Wall Street Journal
- “UN climate change panel says ‘unprecedented’ action needed to prevent temperature rise” by Tom DiChristopher for CNBC
- “Michigan high schools debate adding video games as new varsity sport” by Hugh Bernreuter for mLive
- Banned Books Week
- “Banning Books Silences Stories” by Millie Davis for NCTE
- “Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2017” by ALA
- “Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2012” by ALA
- “Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2007” by ALA
- Colin Kaepernick is Nike’s spokesman for 30th anniversary advertisement
- Why the social media boycott over Colin Kaepernick is a win for Nike by Alex Abad-Santos for Vox
- Nike reignited the Kaepernick controversy in naming him the face of “Just Do It” by Jane Coaston for Vox + Nike’s Colin Kaepernick gamble is already paying off by David Goldman for CNN
- “U.S. is denying passports to Americans along the border, throwing their citizenship into question” by Kevin Sieff for The Washington Post
- Detroit schools shutting off drinking water because of lead, copper by Lori Higgins for Detroit Free Press
- White Sox’s Michael Kopech: Offensive tweets ‘not who I am now’ by ESPN
2017 – 2018
- “Why Puerto Rico is Not a US State” by Christina Thornell for Vox + “Puerto Rico’s blackout, the largest in American history, explained” by Umair Irfan for Vox
- “Daylight saving time begins Sunday: 7 things you should know about ‘springing forward‘” by Brian Resnick for Vox
- “USS Lexington discovered by billionaire Paul Allen’s crew 76 years after WWII sinking” by Frank Miles for Fox News
- “How ‘Fortnite’ Defied Convention and Became a Hit” by Sarah E. Needleman for the Wall Street Journal
- “Why Is Russia at the Olympics” by Victor Mather for the New York Times + “What Ban? Patriotic Fervor Grips Russia’s Celebration House in South Korea” by Tariq Panja for the New York Times
- ** “The Early Bird Gets the Bad Grade” by Nancy Kalish for the New York Times + “Should School Stay early” by elenam112 for TeenInk + “High schools with late start times help teens but bus schedules and after-school can conflict” by the Associated Press via Fox News
- “Fitness tracking app Strava gives away location of secret US army bases” by Alex Hern for the Guardian + “Strava suggests military users ‘opt out’ of heatmap as row deepens” by Alex Hern for the Guardian
- “Former NFLers call for end to tackle football for kids” by Nadia Kounang for CNN
- “7 young adults went undercover as high-school students and found that life as a teenager today is nothing like they remember” by Mark Abadi for Business Insider
- “Wiring blamed in failed Pontiac Silverdome implusion” by JC Reindl and Allie Gross for the Detroit Free Press
**Adapted from C3WP
2016 – 2017
2015 – 2016
- “Deadpool Destroys Box Office Records with $135-million Haul” by Lindsey Bahr for the Associated Press
- “Is future bleak for Super Bowl?” by Amy Bass for CNN