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Byline: Joan E Greve in Washington Fed up with the status quo, former Bernie Sanders campaign manager Faiz Shakir launched an 11th-hour bid to become the next chair of the [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C -- The following information was released by the AFL-CIO: AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler issued a video response to President Trump's joint address to Congress tonight. In the video, [...]

Byline: Dustin Guastella Before the election it was clear that Kamala Harris 's closing message was not landing with working-class voters. The Center for Working Class Politics (CWCP) sounded the [...]

In scores of interviews throughout 2024, Latino, Black and Asian American voters, many of whom voted for Donald Trump, said they no longer trusted Democrats to improve the economy. The [...]

A week before the election, my dad was visiting and talked to me about his gut feeling that former President Donald Trump might win. He was clear about his choice [...]

“There was no appreciation — no appreciation — of the struggling and the suffering of millions and millions of working-class people,” the senator said. As the Democratic Party grapples with […]

Byline: Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders is blaming the Democratic Party after Vice President Kamala Harris lost to now President-elect Donald Trump and Republicans gained control of [...]

Bangladesh, Nov. 4 -- The American political landscape has transformed significantly over the past few decades, with one of the most surprising trends being the migration of the working class [...]

Byline: Sarah Elliott Donald John Trump has now achieved the ultimate prize: the greatest US political comeback of all time. It may just be the best comeback story ever. The [...]

Byline: Ethan Jacobs When Vice President Kamala Harris announced Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.) as her running mate, I was ecstatic because, through his life story and public service record, I [...]

The most surprising moment of this year’s Republican National Convention may have come on its first night, when the president of the Teamsters railed in prime time against corporate elites [...]

Byline: Robert Tait in Washington Joe Biden, who so far has defied calls to quit the presidential race from Democrats worried about his ability to beat Donald Trump, this week [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI): By Taylor Maag and Stuart Malec Amid America's current news cycle, it can be hard to see [...]

Byline: Eduardo Porter There might be much to criticize about the Biden administration's embrace of protectionism. Its political logic, however, seems impeccable: to recover the White working class enthralled by [...]

Byline: David Brooks After Hillary Clinton's defeat in 2016, most sensible Democrats realized they had a problem. The party was hemorrhaging support from the white working class. More than 60 [...]

A lot of Democrats are bewildered by why their party isn’t doing better in campaigns against a Republican Party that is deeply dysfunctional. A new paper by three economists proposes [...]

Byline: Jason Willick The most important U.S. political trend of this century is the march of college-educated White voters toward the Democratic Party -- and of non-college-educated White voters toward [...]

Byline: Kate Aronoff Joe Biden had to choose a side in the United Auto Workers' contract fight with the 'big three' American automakers, and he did. This week, he became [...]

Byline: Greg Sargent Republicans have been amplifying the claim lately that their party has undergone a 'populist' makeover, rendering it both anti-elite and pro-working class. One way Republicans purport to [...]

Byline: Perry Bacon Jr. 'Those of you ... over 40, did you ever think we'd be in a situation where blue-collar workers would vote Republican?' President Biden said during a [...]

During the midterm campaign, Republican strategists blamed another round of subpar small-dollar campaign contributions on a familiar culprit: inflation. 'It's gas or this donation; it's vacation with our children or [...]

Byline: Steven Greenhouse After years of struggle, America's labor unions enjoy greater public approval than at any time in more than 50 years. Yet even as the Republican party seeks [...]

On Feb. 7, 2023, President Biden gave his second State of the Union address. The SOTU is an annual message from the president to Congress detailing the current socioeconomic conditions [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The following information was released by Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell: U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding [...]

Byline: Jared Quigg Is the title too obvious? My friends on the political left have long known it to be true that the Democrats don't represent the interests of the [...]

Byline: Astra Taylor How should one feel about the first year of the Biden presidency? I can't really say I'm disappointed, since I didn't have high hopes going into it. [...]

Byline: Steven Greenhouse Senator Bernie Sanders has called on Democrats to make 'a major course correction' that focuses on fighting for America's working class and standing up to 'powerful corporate [...]