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Rust Belt
August 18, 2022
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Timothy Noah
Tim Ryan: Right Man, Right Place, Right Time
The Buckeye State has grown redder and redder. The Democratic congressman could reverse that—and start to revive the Democrats’ working-class identity.
September 4, 2020
Magazine
Steven Greenhouse
A Bold New Plan to Turn the Rust Belt Blue
A well-funded Democratic group is wooing former union members whom liberals have long ignored.
March 5, 2018
Sarah Jones
Can Silicon Valley save the Rust Belt?
February 22, 2018
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Sarah Jaffe
The New Working Class
It’s not just men working factory jobs in the Rust Belt—and it never really was.
December 9, 2013
Nora Caplan-Bricker
How Many People in Your State Are Dying From Downwind Air Pollution?
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