The working class is the only group of people comedians can safely make jokes about, Ricky Gervais claims. Jokes about other ...

Washington, D.C. — A new Center for American Progress analysis reveals that today’s working class is more diverse than ever before. The majority of America’s labor force is made up of the working ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new report commissioned by a labor-backed group is examining a problem many Democrats might rather ignore: the exodus of working-class voters from the party they used to call home. Republicans under ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Kyle Bielski voted for President Trump last year after backing Joseph R. Biden Jr. in 2020. These days, he says, he feels “abandoned by both parties.” To Marlon Flores of Houston, neither political ...

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 ...