David Helps

On both sides of the color line, to own one’s home remains synonymous with freedom—even as real estate has proven itself to be relentlessly unequal.

The Bonaventure Hotel was a battleground in the war between transnational real estate capital and the city’s multiracial working class.

A new book offers a critical history of Silicon Valley's blend of California idealism and exploitation.

Infrastructural projects should be understood in terms of whose lives they make more livable—and the futures they enable or foreclose.

Confronting the violence of U.S. policing requires an international perspective.

Two books trace anti-police uprisings to the urban riots of the Civil Rights era. But as people took to the streets in 2020, why did so few pick up a brick?

On Kyle Riismandel’s “Neighborhood of Fear: The Suburban Crisis in American Culture, 1975–2001.”

The loudest opponents to police funding were once fiscal conservatives.