This socialist pol is keeping his past in the rear view. David Orkin, a Democratic Socialists of America-backed candidate ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C., on politics, demographics and inequality. There have been endless laments for the white working-class voters the Democratic Party lost ...

The theory seemed sound: Stabilize financial markets, support the poor and promote a more secure, integrated world. But blue-collar workers were left behind. The Democratic Party’s estrangement from ...

In the aftermath of the GOP’s decisive victory in 2024, I wrote a column arguing that Democrats could appeal to working-class voters again by embracing big government populism and targeting the ...

The escape from working-class life has good narrative pedigree, a classic form—beginning with the idea of escape itself. It’s something like a sharpened bildungsroman. The child is nudged forward by ...

Conservatives claim that Donald Trump’s electoral victories show that his Republican Party, not the Democrats, now represents the working class. Sen. Josh Hawley tweeted on election night 2020, “We ...