Working Class
Toward a Foreign Policy for the Working Class
A foreign policy for the working class is not merely a call to rebuild America’s physical and technological infrastructure but to restore its moral and spiritual foundations. In the third...
Does Joe Biden Actually Care About the Average American?
Remember when Democrats advocated for working-class Americans? My maternal relatives were all Irish Catholic Democrats in decades past. They were deeply conservative in their personal lives and social views, and...
Who Will Win the Workers?
Recent years’ United States election cycles have been witness to the outsized political influence wielded by working-class voters in the industrial heartland regions anchored by the handful of critical Midwest...
36% of Workers Making $100,000 or More Living Paycheck to Paycheck
With U.S. inflation still sitting at a forty-year high, a new survey is showing just how difficult it is for many American workers—even if they have sizeable incomes—to make ends...
Forget the American Dream – Millions of Working Americans Still Can’t Afford Food and Rent
The Biden administration is likely celebrating another positive jobs report, which showed rising employment and wages. However, for millions of working Americans, being employed doesn’t guarantee a living income. As scholars interested in...
America’s Middle Class Is Dying. Here’s Why That’s a Good Thing.
A frequent refrain among Washington populists (and in omnipresent political advertising) these days is that decades of global capitalism have “hollowed out” the center of the American workforce, leaving two...
United Auto Workers on National Strike for First Time Since 2007
About 49,000 members of the United Auto Workers union (UAW) could strike against General Motors at midnight Monday. The strikers are demanding fair wages, job security, affordable health care and...
Trump Won By Following A Divide-and-Conquer Strategy
Last night was supposed to usher in a new era of Democratic dominance in Washington, D.C. You had Hillary Clinton, the most knowledgeable and experienced foreign policy bureaucrat to seek...
Identity Politics Makes a Comeback in America
When the Rev. Jesse Jackson ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984, he defined his constituency as a “rainbow coalition” of racial and ethnic minorities—blacks, browns, yellows, reds—as well...