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Inside Every Utopia Is a Dystopia

A new biography of Norman Bel Geddes, designer of the Futurama, tells the story of American innovation.

John Crowley

Politics

Back of the Yards

Lessons from a community organizer on building political power.

Michael Gecan

Class & Inequality, Science & Nature

Unraveling the Silicon Valley Consensus

Startups aren't the magic bullet for economic growth.

Ben Armstrong

Class & Inequality, Race

From “War on Crime” to War on the Black Community

The enduring impact of President Johnson’s Crime Commission.

Elizabeth Hinton

Class & Inequality, Race

Reversal of Fortune

Cities are now playgrounds for the rich, with the poor forced into suburbs.

Claude S. Fischer

Class & Inequality, Race

What the Kerner Report Got Wrong about Policing

Bad police were not simply a symptom of racism. They were often its agents.

Daniel Geary

Class & Inequality, Race

Fifty Years Ago, the Government Said Black Lives Matter

The 1968 Kerner report concluded that white racism was to blame for race riots.

Julian E. Zelizer

Literature & Culture

A Vision in Concrete

Boston’s concrete modernist architecture is unsurpassed and widely despised.

Anthony Paletta

Class & Inequality, Literature & Culture

The Nation's Mayor

Can Julián Castro stop HUD's demolition of public housing?

Edward G. Goetz

Class & Inequality, Literature & Culture

The Pacification of Rio, as Observed from a Gondola

Thanks to the teleférico, tourists can comfortably gawk at Brazil's poor.

Amy Moran-Thomas

Poetry

Round and Round

A wheeling book of aspirations and frustrations, London: A History in Verse offers us a literary treasury: a record of the city, a roll of its events.

Lytton Smith

Class & Inequality, Literature & Culture

Names, Trains, and Corporate Deals

The never-ending budget crises of American cities are claiming another victim: public transit.

Frank Pasquale

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