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December 4, 2019
Magazine
Gabriel Winant
Life Under the Algorithm
How a relentless speedup is reshaping the working class
May 24, 2018
Michael Friedrich
Spirit of the Strip Mall
Sam Pink’s disaffected fiction evokes the sheer weirdness of working life.
February 22, 2018
Magazine
Sarah Jaffe
The New Working Class
It’s not just men working factory jobs in the Rust Belt—and it never really was.
December 15, 2017
Sarah Jones
Who Loses in the War Against Net Neutrality?
With the FCC dismantling the rules that safeguard an open internet, rural and low-income consumers are newly vulnerable to a lack of access.
August 1, 2017
Magazine
J.C. Pan
The New Yuppies
How the aspirational class expresses its status in an age of inequality.
June 8, 2017
Sam Metz
Édouard Louis’s Novel of the French Working Class
"The End of Eddy" shows the pride and pain of people who feel left behind—for some very familiar reasons.
December 8, 2016
Clio Chang
Trump’s Labor pick proves that he was never about the working class.
November 22, 2016
Clio Chang
Bernie Sanders clarifies what he meant by going “beyond identity politics.”
November 21, 2016
Clio Chang
No, Bernie Sanders didn’t ask his supporters to “ditch” identity politics.
November 21, 2016
Bob Moser
Trump’s Vanishing Base
Blue-collar whites put him over the top. Here’s why it won’t happen again.
November 18, 2016
Bryce Covert
No, ‘Economic Anxiety’ Doesn’t Explain Donald Trump
To root his political success in the economic travails of the working class is to misunderstand that class’s makeup.
November 17, 2016
Sarah Jones
J.D. Vance, the False Prophet of Blue America
The bestselling author of "Hillbilly Elegy" has emerged as the liberal media's favorite white trash–splainer. But he is offering all the wrong lessons.
August 25, 2016
Rebecca Nelson
The Forgotten Millennials
Blue-collar youth could be Hillary Clinton’s key to victory—if she can get them on board.
February 19, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
The Death of American Unions Is Killing American Marriage
June 5, 2013
Andrew Levison
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Ruy Teixeira
Why the Democrats Still Need Working-Class White Voters
February 26, 1977
Michael Harrington
Hiding the Other America
May 16, 1955
Thomas Mann
The Stature of Anton Chekhov
March 5, 1935
Newton Arvin
Homage to Robert Herrick
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