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  • Democracy & Government
    How Decades of Corporate-Friendly Farm Policies Wrecked Rural America
    November 9, 2020
    | Jim Goodman
    And Paved the Way for Trump
  • Economy & Work
    Black Monday, '77, The Birth of the Rust Belt in Youngstown
    September 25, 2017
    | Gar Alperovitz
    An activist sees hope in cooperative ownership and what he calls the "pluralist commonwealth."
  • Environment
    A Buffalo Suburb Ends Its Dependence on Coal
    July 19, 2017
    | Elizabeth McGowan
    A small town’s inclusive and equitable template for other blue-collar towns facing the loss of dirty energy jobs and other polluting industries.
  • Inequality
    The Real Forgotten Americans
    January 19, 2017
    | Leonard Steinhorn
    If Trump really wants to speak for forgotten Americans, he would travel to the Mississippi Delta and the rural Black Belt of the American South.
  • Economy & Work
    The Big Stitch: Making America Good Again 
    December 19, 2016
    | Tyler Bush
    A teacher in a struggling steel town reflects on the kind of education the next generation needs.
  • Democracy & Government
    Political Civil Wars in Ohio
    December 15, 2016
    | John Russo
    The bellwether state may be providing a sneak preview of the pressures for national political realignment.
  • Economy & Work
    Democrats Need Something Old and Something New
    December 5, 2016
    | Sean Posey
    To rebuild its winning coalition, a Rust Belt writer argues, the opposition party has to advance younger leaders and go back to its working-class roots.
  • Economy & Work
    A Time of Reckoning for Progressives
    November 17, 2016
    | Les Leopold
    By not acting on behalf of the nation's struggling workers, the Left will continue to cede the jobs terrain to Donald Trump.
  • Media
    2016 As Prologue, Not Aberration
    November 16, 2016
    | Michael Copps
    Our media is strangling our democracy, and without a course correction it will only get worse.
  • Economy & Work
    Too Long Ignored: How Democrats Lost a Key Constituency
    November 15, 2016
    | Sean Posey
    The party of the working class is reaping the harvest of decades of neglect.


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