An exhaustive new survey from the Center for Working-Class Politics and its partners finds that strong economic populism resonates across Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania — and that ...

Democrats know they have a problem with working-class voters but don’t agree on the cause. Commentators chalk Kamala Harris’s 2024 loss to high prices, an unusually short campaign cycle, or voter ...

For all their divisions, Americans share one conviction: the economy comes first. But beyond general concern about “the economy,” affordability and inflation, it’s much less clear what specific ...

As the Democrats have lost ground to the Republicans with noncollege educated and working-class voters, particularly among white and Latino populations, researchers have wondered how Democrats might ...

The Rust Belt is undergoing a revival, thanks in part to President Donald Trump's decision to approve the sale of U.S. Steel to Japan's Nippon Steel.

Rust Belt Insurgents Clinch Democrats' House Takeover, Repair Blue Wall. A little over a year from now, a headline like that will convey the state of the electorate—if Democrats prevail in the 2026 ...