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

But around the same time, the writers John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira published The Emerging Democratic Majority, which predicted a decades-long advantage for the party of educated professionals, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some wear red hats at political rallies, while others wear blue T-shirts at union protests. Deep down, they’re fighting for a shot at an American Dream that now feels more like a mirage. Whether it’s ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. He tried to enact a rule allowing employers to pocket workers ...

J.D. Vance still wants you to think he’s fighting for the working-class, railing against the elites in coarse terms. In private, a recent Politico profile suggests, the Ohio senator and Hillbilly ...

The materials presented here reflect the development of a political perspective which we understand to be fundamentally the perspective of the working class struggle internationally today. It is the ...

Sen. Bernie Sanders is standing ten toes down on his assessment that the Democratic Party lost the presidential election because the working class feels abandoned. The Vermont senator, an independent ...

A characteristic of the hegemonic political and media culture of the United States is the near invisibility of social class as a major determinant of power. Race and gender have finally started to ...

After a transformative year on the picket lines, the United Auto Workers’ ambitions for building worker power don’t stop at the US border. United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain speaks during the ...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s top team contains more lawmakers from poor backgrounds, and fewer from elite schools, than any in recent memory. Voters haven’t noticed. By Stephen Castle Reporting from ...