Despite "falling in love" with Detroit while filming a movie here, Ryan Gosling is not running for mayor of our troubled city, thus meaning residents will have to endure another four years of decidedly un-handsome leadership.

Our long, local nightmare is over: Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, already a felon, has been convicted on 24 federal charges of racketeering, wire fraud, extortion and bribery today, practically guaranteeing a lengthy prison term and bringing a close to a chapter in the Motor City's history annals that read…

The Detroit Auto Show is often attended by a ton of famous celebrities, like the Jalopnik staff and some other, less important people. But at least one celebrity has come to Detroit to stage a protest outside the big show, and that's Danny Glover, the star of the Lethal Weapon movies.

Besides stealing nuclear secrets or talking in a movie theater, I don't think there's a bigger dick move on the planet than tire slashing. That's exactly what this former Congressional candidate in New Mexico is accused of doing. Repeatedly. Oh, and stalking. Not cool, bro!

Unless you've been nursing a hangover so intense that it has kept you away from the news in recent days, you probably know that the U.S. House voted late yesterday to approve legislation that would avert the so-called "fiscal cliff." The bill was sent to President Obama today for his signature.

Up until recently, there was a funny little loophole that let California legislators ride around in some pretty nice cars that cost taxpayers a lot of money. You're probably thinking everyone in California drives a Prius, but the fact is many politicians drive around in some expensive cars and have been getting the…

Nate Silver—the baseball analyst/metapollster/scary math witch who has given us both the PECOTA player forecasting system and the indispensable FiveThirtyEight blog—is in the discussion below, awaiting your questions. Go buy his book, The Signal and the Noise. We predict that you'll like it.

Back in 2009, Barack Obama made a gutsy move at the beginning of his presidency. He used his political capital on an $82 billion gamble to put General Motors and Chrysler through bankruptcy, and deal with a bunch of collateral issues surrounding the auto industry.

Now that last week's Republican National Convention is over, it's time for the Democrats to take center stage and nominate President Obama — or an ultra top secret "Mystery Candidate X" — for the presidency.

Today, President Obama was in Iowa, talking about his energy policies, including wind power. He reminded the crowd that Republican candidate Mitt Romney said of wind power "You can't drive a car with a windmill on it," and then Obama used that to get in a little zinger, saying "I don't know if he's actually tried that. I…