Class-war rhetoric from Democratic candidates jams working-class voters into a prefabricated progressive agenda, an expert on rural and working-class communities argues.
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Thinking about what makes work worth doing and what you would do with your time if you weren’t spending it at work are useful questions to pose this and every year.
Mamdani’s child care plans could set an example for other policymakers to follow, as Democratic and Republican voters say child care costs are a major problem.
The Republican tax bill is set to worsen inequality, government data shows. It’s part of a 50-year trend that’s affecting the social fabric as well as the economy.
Americans are realizing that the country’s two-tiered system of market-rate housing and government-operated, low-income housing isn’t doing the trick.
Republicans have a leader, Donald Trump; a banner, MAGA; and a song, ‘God Bless the USA.’ Democrats have nothing like this.
In the 1930s a group sprang up in North America that wanted to merge the US with Canada. Elon Musk’s grandfather was a significant figure.
Left out of FDR’s New Deal, the health insurance program for the poor was finally established in 1965.
The early 1920s in the US offers historical lessons on how current pessimism about the state of the country can manifest in dangerous, discriminatory ways.
Legal experts are concerned that President Donald Trump is expanding executive powers beyond the law – creating what they call a constitutional crisis.
Presidents often come into office with a blueprint to transform government. Project 2025 – assembled by Trump allies – is part of a lineage of conservative reactions to liberal presidents’ plans.
A dip into historical data shows that the stock market has responded differently under Republican and Democrat presidents.
Conservatives defend efforts to dismantle the federal bureaucracy as tactics against tyranny, but Americans exercise their sovereignty through these civil services.
Over the past 15 years, the world has seen a financial crisis, the rise of populist politics and a fracturing of the world economic order. Sounds all a bit pre-WWII, right?
Both sides took this marriage for granted until Southern Democrats, concerned that labor unions would organize Black workers across the South, joined pro-business Republican colleagues in Congress.
A former archivist at Mary McLeod Bethune’s home in Washington, DC, recounts how the experience led her to see Bethune as a global figure.
Championed by Thatcher, Reagan and Elon Musk, there’s a marked tendency to reduce Hayek to less than the sum of his parts.
A historian explains why the pre-Roe anti-abortion movement was filled with liberal Democrats who opposed the Vietnam War and supported the expansion of the welfare state.
The prime minister has borrowed language from Franklin Roosevelt to describe his pathway out of the pandemic. But Morrison’s ‘New Deal’ has the potential to leave too many people behind.
Starting in July 2021, most US families will get monthly payments from the IRS of either $250 or $300 per child under 18.
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Associate Professor of Public Health, The Ohio State University
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Professor of History and Law Faculty, The Ohio State University
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