The Inequality Chronicles

To understand racial inequality in America, start with housing. Here, in the nation’s poorest major city, the segregationist roots go deep.

A modern settlement house movement is brewing in Texas. Have organizers figured out the secret to reviving the immigrant dream?

In Baltimore, public investment — and disinvestment — in transportation have figured greatly in the persistence of racial and economic inequality.

Forget the flashiness of city politics. Cook County has quietly become one of the best places in the nation for thinking creatively about the role of government in people’s lives.

A writer tracks the longest epidemic in American history — from his own family, to the origins of the gas industry, to the Flint water crisis and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

For decades a working-class neighborhood in Philadelphia has struggled to repair the damages inflicted by postwar urban renewal projects.