There are two sides of Detroit; the rich and protected, and the poor and abandoned.

As we continue to segregate by income, the rest of us will have to answer questions like the ones Detroit and its suburbs are facing, eventually.

As Detroit draws international criticism for shutting off water for low-income families, activists ask why people are being forced to pay while the Wall Street banks live large.

Minimum wage campaigns should be the entry point to not only raise the bottom but also to challenge the tricks, skims and scams that concentrate wealth into the hands of fewer and fewer people.

Los Angeles is being forced to spend $300 million a year on Wall Street fees. That's more than it spends on its roads. Other cities have been crushed by Wall Street fees as well.

Dave Zirin ponders how city leaders justify spending money on a new hockey arena over fixing city schools or restoring streetlights.

Review thought-provoking articles and columns about Detroit's bankruptcy and what it says about the past and future of America's cities.