All articles by Eli Day
Eli Day
“By conservative estimates, the US owes black people several trillion dollars in reparations”
By conservative estimates, the United States owes black people somewhere between a few and several trillion dollars. The origins of…
More than 100,000 Detroit families have lost their homes due to illegal tax foreclosure
A society’s standards, the folk wisdom goes, are all that keeps it from sliding into moral ruin. The threat of…
“The heir to a cruel tradition”: on the US attorney general Jeff Sessions’ plan to combat urban crime
Donald Trump is a lousy authoritarian. From his total lack of interest in seizing the reins of state power, to…
Don't kid yourself – Donald Trump won't Make Cities Great Again
When children conjure alternate worlds out of thin air, ones that fly in the face of observable reality, we celebrate…
The people of Detroit have been shut out of its regeneration. The CBO could change that
For the sea of eyes gazing in, Detroit has long been a kind of portal to a world undone. Here,…
“Detroit didn’t fail. It was sabotaged”: on the decades’ long collapse of America’s industrial colossus
The United States recalls its history like a child does their school records: with self-congratulating pageantry when favourable, and a…