John Russo
John Russo is the former co-director of the Center for Working-Class Studies and coordinator of the Labor Studies Program at Youngstown State University. Currently, he is a visiting scholar at the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and Working Poor at Georgetown University. Russo has published widely on labor and social issues, in academic journals as well as magazines and newspapers. He is also managing editor of the blog Working-Class Perspectives.
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December 15, 2016The bellwether state may be providing a sneak preview of the pressures for national political realignment.
November 15, 2016The elites who turned a blind eye to an economic cataclysm are now blaming the victims.
November 9, 2016The anger that propelled Donald Trump to the presidency was all about the political class.
October 20, 2016As Trump disses democracy, it would be nice to address the anxieties of those who are beginning to doubt it can help them.
October 4, 2016If Democrats and the media had listened to the people whose lives Springsteen sings about, they might understand where their white working-class voters have gone.
September 27, 2016She'll have more credibility if she doesn't try to convince voters they're better off than they are.
September 23, 2016It might take more than calling out blatant racism to derail the Trump train.
September 13, 2016Trump has made a "safe space" for bigotry. Opposing him shouldn't cause us to engage in a different brand of belittling.
August 31, 2016It's not about character. It's about the economy — and the next generation.
August 15, 2016The Republican candidate hopes to appeal to the deindustrialized town's disaffected workers but there are ironies about his appeal and his audience.
