Too long ignored, the voices of the Rust Belt and deindustrialized America finally had their say election night. “The forgotten men and women of our country,” as President-elect Donald Trump called ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Commentators in charge of explaining Donald Trump’s surprise victory seem to have settled on the idea ...

The voters of the Rust Belt have shaken up the 2016 presidential campaign: Hoping to jolt a political system they see as ineffective and out of touch, they have repeatedly revolted by supporting ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Like labor unions everywhere, the local Plumbers & Pipefitters union in Ohio’s ...

Democrats lost the Rust Belt in November in part because they lost the white, working-class, as my colleague Ron Brownstein has written. They failed to offer a more compelling message than Donald ...