Destin Jenkins

“What if we identified the politics of municipal debt as circumscribing political horizons and futures?”

How municipal debt contributed to the development of white America and underdevelopment of Black America.

The bond market has fueled vast inequities between cities and suburbs — especially in smaller locales.

On why he became a public thinker, the relationship between race and class, and his work in light of new histories of capitalism.

For all of its strengths, Richard Rothstein’s new book does not account for the central role capitalism played in segregating America's cities.

The roots of inequality run a lot deeper than is often acknowledged.