Biden And Trump Both Vowed To Revitalize The Rust Belt. Why Has This City Been Shut Out? Trump Is Scrambling To Avoid A ...

Democrats are looking at a 2024 Electoral College map very few of them expected. President Joe Biden’s breakthrough 2020 wins in Arizona and Georgia seemed to confirm that the party’s future was ...

Poll of the week: A new Franklin & Marshall College poll from Pennsylvania finds former Vice President Joe Biden at 50% to President Donald Trump’s 41%. This is just the latest Pennsylvania poll to ...

On April 24, the Census Bureau announced how seats in the U.S. House of Representatives would be reallocated based on recent population data. There were some surprises. Texas gained two seats, and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Adam writes about state and local policy and urban economic issues. In 11 days Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 45 th ...

Soon after the 2018 midterms, I reviewed the evidence about where Democrats made gains and suggested it still wasn’t clear which strategy the party should adopt in trying to recover from the 2016 loss ...

Americans tend to move from large, urban areas, particularly in the Northeast and the Midwest, toward suburban areas, particularly in the South and the West. After many decades of that kind of ...

Justin Torres is author of the novel “We the Animals.” I grew up in the Rust Belt, the easternmost tip, in a small town near a Great Lake, where my mother worked in an industrial brewery and my father ...

Every four years, national media turn their attention to the Rust Belt, a term that describes Midwestern industrial and manufacturing states whose economies were decimated by the decline of those ...

Voices from the Rust Belt, ed. Anne Trubeck, Belt Publishing, 256 pages. They call the wide expanse from the Northeast to the Upper Midwest the Rust Belt. The region’s geographical lines, subject to ...