I’m as delighted as the next guy that the MAGA cult is tearing itself apart over an Epstein client list that probably doesn’t exist. But only about half of all Republicans identify as MAGA, and within ...

A sparsely attended forum about the working class held at a $40 million think tank—yep, sounds about right. Representatives Greg Casar and Nikki Budzinski at the Center for American Progress on June 4 ...

The reasons for the erosion of Democratic Party support within the American working class is a topic on which seemingly everyone has an opinion. It has renewed the debate between the left and the ...

Zohran Mamdani’s recent victory over Andrew Cuomo is impressive: the democratic socialist ran a strong campaign and leapt from virtual anonymity to widespread name recognition in a matter of mere ...

Many in the party see workers as drifting rightward. But new data show they’re more progressive than ever on economic issues—if Democrats are willing to meet them there. Zohran Mamdani won New York’s ...

Missing Middle: These are the voters both parties are fighting over—caught between the over- and underclass, defined by precarity rather than poverty. Here, Vice President JD Vance and second lady ...

Responding to a guest essay, readers discuss the Democratic Party’s history and its options now. To the Editor: Re “The History Lesson Democrats Need to Relearn,” by David Paul Kuhn (Opinion guest ...

Sign up for Trump’s Return, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump presidency. In its period of exile, the Democratic Party has a lot of decisions to ...

Mr. Kuhn, a producer of the forthcoming PBS documentary “Hard Hat Riot,” is the author of “The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution.” Democrats are ...

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani at the Caribbean Day Parade, September 1, 2025. Credit: Andrea Renault/STAR MAX/IPx 2025 A number of progressive groups close to the Democratic Party and ...

The White House is framed in the trees under a cloudy sky on March 9, 2025, in Washington. (Getty/J. David Ake) President Donald Trump promised to be a “champion for the American worker,” but his ...