Detroit

Why Detroit exploded in the summer of 1967

Understanding the story behind the riots that rocked Detroit fifty years ago this summer

A best friend remembers Gordie Howe

Growing up in Malta, Felix Gatt didn’t know a thing about hockey. Then he moved to Detroit and met Mr. Hockey himself.

Detroit moves on from Gordie Howe—and itself

In Hockeytown, USA, Mr. Hockey is as faint a memory as the Detroit of his glory days

Land of the freeloaders: The battle for a new cross-border bridge

From 2015: Inside Canada’s protracted struggle to build a critical cross-border bridge—and how America got away without paying a penny

Young and carless

The auto industry has yet to find a way to get young people driving again

Noted at the Detroit auto show: The industry’s future

Automakers push bigger, more powerful vehicles

Letters

Letters: ‘Hang tough, Motor City’

Maclean’s readers weigh in on Detroit, the royal baby hoopla and men’s rights

Detroit and the lost history of Canadian municipal insolvencies

How to prevent a return to the past? Through data visualization, of course.

Detroit runs out of gas

Paul Wells mourns the Motor City, which has been in decline for longer than anyone wants to recall

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Detroit emergency manager to creditors: City defaulting on $2.5 billion in unsecured debt

ROMULUS, Mich. – A team led by a state-appointed emergency manager said Friday that Detroit is defaulting on about $2.5 billion in unsecured debt and is asking creditors to take about 10 cents on the dollar of what the city owes them.