Sherry Linkon
Sherry Linkon, a professor of English at Georgetown University and a faculty affiliate of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, edits the blog Working-Class Perspectives and is working on a book about the literature of deindustrialization. She earned her Ph.D. in American studies from the University of Minnesota and spends her summers in Youngstown, Ohio. Follow her on Twitter: @WCPerspectives.
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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.
November 3, 2016The divides this campaign has revealed will linger long after Election Day.
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 18, 2016Its economic, social and psychological effects continued for decades after plants closed and across generations.
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.
