Not every city that once symbolized the American Dream is still thriving. In 2026, the patterns are clear. These cities once pulled in residents by the hundreds of thousands. Now they're watching ...

Keith B. Richburg, China correspondent at the Washington Post and a native of Detroit, reminsces about the city’s glory days and the reasons for its long slide into blight and decay. My heart aches ...

There's something unsettling about watching a city lose its sparkle. Not all at once, like a catastrophe, but slowly, like ...