Detroit

Of all the things they've endured, Detroit residents can now add grotesque racial insensivity from a newspaper editor to their list.

“If you think of Detroit as far away and unrelated to life in your hometown, think again. The next victim could be your town, your community, your retirement.”

The television series “The Walking Dead” serves as a metaphor for the destruction of the middle class and political/social forces in today's world.

One especially important lesson concerns how one factor - “outside influence” - works so one-sidedly in the United States.

Billionaire Dan Gilbert seems genuinely to want to be part of the solution for Detroit, but his business model helped create and now perpetuates the city's problems.

Increases in payroll taxes, the Detroit bankruptcy and repression against protesters indicate the widening contradiction between capitalism and democracy.

Only a genuinely radical response from the public will be able to counteract the selling of Detroit.

The manipulations behind the attack on pensions in Detroit's bankruptcy.

The purposeful, ideologically driven assault on democratic government orchestrated by ALEC and forces in Michigan's Statehouse has starved already-ailing Detroit of revenues.

The death of a great American city is one of the biggest - if not the biggest - news story of the week. But the mainstream media has yet …