The most important politician to ever hail from Nevada, the late senator never forgot his hardscrabble beginnings and the promises he made to the American people.

Heavy industry once drove Pittsburgh’s economy. Now health care does—but without the same hard-won benefits.

The party of the country club tries to embrace a new egalitarian economic agenda.

Imagine a version of the U.S. that is not a global destabilizer and coercive magnet for those fleeing that destabilization. Imagine a world of movement for pleasure.

In the final presidential debate, a handful of perfunctory appeals to working people got lost in a storm of personal attacks and allegations of corruption.

It’s easy to forgo a mask when you know your wealth probably insulates you from the worst effects of the pandemic.

The first night of the GOP convention was the dying gasp of the party’s feeble crack at right-wing populism.

How a luxury doggy daycare became an unlikely model of the future of work

Those whose livelihoods are being ravaged by the pandemic are getting further maligned by an out-of-touch press.

As the elegies for the campaign roll in, its most lasting legacy may be the most basic.

The app-based economy was already a race to the bottom. The pandemic raises the question of how much lower things can go.

With "Rust Belt Femme," Raechel Anne Jolie joins a coterie of writers using memoir to explore whiteness, class, and American hierarchy.

The urgency of majoritarian working-class politics is bigger than a single presidential campaign.

The Democratic primary is down to two old white men, but political representation should mean more than identity alone.

College and professional teams are adopting working-class mores as a marketing gimmick.

Why Democratic leaders still misunderstand the politics of social class

How a relentless speedup is reshaping the working class

It’s not just men working factory jobs in the Rust Belt—and it never really was.

How the aspirational class expresses its status in an age of inequality.

Blue-collar whites put him over the top. Here’s why it won’t happen again.