Class dealignment, in short, should be understood as a result of Democrats’ policy decisions in the 1990s and their work since 2000 to actively bring their electoral strategy into line with their ...

American politics, Timothy Shenk quips in his newest book, Left Adrift, “used to be simple: Republicans were for business, Democrats for labor.” But since the 1970s, class dealignment—the delinkage of ...

There’s no forging a durable working-class progressive coalition without winning back the blue-collar working class. The Democratic Party is hemorrhaging support among the working-class voters who ...

Dealignment has arrived. Republicans blew it, and are now so repellent that Americans increasingly reject both political parties. In the latest Washington Post/ABC poll, 43 percent of voters labeled ...

The squalid state of our present political institutions points to a failure of not just individuals but the system as a whole. Kamala Harris at the 2024 Democratic National Convention. With all eyes ...

Can Economic Populism Save the Democratic Party? Jared Abbott, the director of the Center for Working-Class Politics, discusses what it would take for Democrats to better appeal to working-class ...

The rise of China is likely to fashion a kaleidoscopic multipolar world order, as many countries, including former U.S. allies, distance themselves from both China and the United States. AMONG ...

After their big victories in the 2006 and 2008 elections, Democrats made the same mistake that they had made after 1992 and that Republicans had in 1994 and 2004: They assumed they had won a permanent ...

The rivalry of two men tells the story of how Democrats fumbled with their traditional base—and how they can win again. American politics, Timothy Shenk quips in his newest book, Left Adrift, “used to ...