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 ...

There may be reasons to idolize the past — better music, cooler cars — but greater prosperity is not among them.

When the domestic steel industry all but died in the 1970s, Pennsylvania, along with other steel-making states, took on the title “rust belt.” It aptly described the economic devastation brought about ...

Dust off your casserole recipes; the Rust Belt isn't out of the game just yet. With a third of Americans saying climate change is a reason they'll consider moving this year, the relative safety of ...

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 ...

America is barreling towards authoritarianism at such a breakneck pace that it should alarm every single one of us. But instead of meeting this moment with courage and integrity, the corporate media ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. -- Accelerating the pace of his re-election campaign, President Bush hopped on a red, white and blue bus Monday and tried to pump up support in Rust Belt states hard hit by ...

Something is shifting in America's housing map, and it's happening quietly. Buyers who once scrambled for homes in the Sun ...

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 ...

Note to the national political press corps: Enough with the Rust Belt. The term’s implication of exhaustion and decay may have fit the Great Lakes and industrial Midwest in the 1970s and ‘80s. I ...

Rust Belt revival: Which Rust Belt cities will see population growth in 2024? Aerial photo of rust belt row homes in a large midwest city in the U.S. Dust off your casserole recipes; the Rust Belt isn ...