The Trump administration’s actions are shrinking jobs, slowing wage growth, and raising living costs for the working class.

Working-class men in America? They’re struggling. Big time. Blue-collar towns are quieter now, their factories shuttered, union halls empty, and communities fraying at the seams. A decade ago, the ...

Millions of hardworking Americans pay rent on time every month, but for years they got little to no credit for it. That’s because, until recently, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have evaluated homebuyers’ ...

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 ...

The “One Big, Beautiful Bill” that passed through Congress is a raw deal for working-class Americans. It should be called the “Billionaire Bailout Bill.” At the center of the bill is a cruel tradeoff: ...

What’s wrong with the white working class? They’re racists, for one thing, economically frustrated, and now channeling their frustration through the erratic megaphone of billionaire Donald Trump. At ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stephanie Duboc of Eagle River, Alaska, shops at the Chugiak-Eagle River Food Pantry inside a Presbyterian church in Eagle River, Alaska. [AP Photo/Mark Thiessen] The Trump administration’s threat to ...