Javier Milei in Argentina. Geert Wilders in the Netherlands. These are the two latest “populist shocks” – the tip of the “populist wave” that comes crashing against the weakened defences of liberal ...
But around the same time, the writers John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira published The Emerging Democratic Majority, which predicted a decades-long advantage for the party of educated professionals, ...
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Penn State labor and employment relations professor Paul Clark about blue-collar voters and their decision to back President-elect Trump in this election. The ...
MANCHESTER, England — In the center of this industrial city in northern England, a memorial commemorates protesters killed here at a demonstration for workers' rights in 1819, in what became known as ...
The promise of free trade was never fulfilled. Workers are continuing to lose ground. A demonstration in 1993 against NAFTA in Austin, Tex. In 1991, when President Carlos Salinas de Gortari proposed a ...
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 ...
As we move into the endgame of the 2022 election, the Democrats face a familiar problem. America’s historical party of the working class keeps losing working-class support. And not just among white ...
Throughout the 2016 election and in the early years of the Donald Trump’s presidency, a number of books on the plight of America's working class hit bookstore shelves—and, in some cases, the ...