If the GOP really cared about meritocracy, they wouldn’t gut programs that help low-income students—especially those who also have a job or care for a child—earn a college degree.

The spending cuts could force many rural hospitals to close. That wouldn’t just be a crisis for rural health care but for rural employment too.

Alas, if history is any guide, they’ll love it anyway.

The Vermont senator is taking his anti-Trump tour to red America—and it’s a smash hit.

Democrats just received some brutal poll results—from their own firm.

Reconnecting the Democratic Party to the working class is an electoral and a moral imperative, and it will be my mission for the rest of my life.

Latino voters shifted dramatically toward Trump in the last election. Reading, Pennsylvania offers a clue to how Democrats can claw them back.

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Some in the chattering class think it’s high time that the party abandon these voters. This could not be more wrongheaded.

The climate crisis offers one of the strongest fields imaginable for proving fealty to the working class against rapacious elites.

A renewed zeal for regulatory reform among Democrats shouldn’t tear down the infrastructure that keeps us safe, but it should eliminate all the obstacles that make it annoying to access.

Remember the right-wing frenzy over “Rich Men North of Richmond”? Well, this ruling exposes Trump-MAGA hypocrisy on the working class—and reveals a big media failure.

The New Republic’s staffers grapple with Donald Trump’s victory—and how Democrats should respond.

Sanders’s time as a presidential candidate has passed, but his ideas are still valuable for a party that needs to persuade voters to return home from MAGA.

Wherever the party has failed, a lack of working-class support has emerged as the key factor. It can’t happen again.

The head of the Democratic National Convention is lashing out after Bernie Sanders called out the disasters in the party.

No working-class majority, no presidential victory. When will Democrats understand this?

The rivalry of two men tells the story of how Democrats fumbled with their traditional base—and how they can win again.

Kamala Harris’s worst campaign surrogate has worn out his welcome.

A Times/Siena poll shows working-class voters are finally moving in the Democrat’s direction. She may need them to win in November.