For working-class Americans, attaining the American Dream is out of reach, says Newsweek Opinion Editor Batya Ungar-Sargon in her new book, Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Men and ...

If the GOP really cared about meritocracy, they wouldn’t gut programs that help low-income students—especially those who also have a job or care for a child—earn a college degree. Advocates have said ...

It’s not exactly news that Democrats have a yawning working-class hole in their coalition. Over time, they have shed both white and nonwhite working-class (noncollege) voters, while improving among ...

The GOP seems to be leaning into its emerging identity as a working-class party. It’s pretty standard now for Republicans to do better than Democrats among working-class (noncollege) voters while ...

I’m as delighted as the next guy that the MAGA cult is tearing itself apart over an Epstein client list that probably doesn’t exist. But only about half of all Republicans identify as MAGA, and within ...

An ongoing debate is taking place among Democrats as to whether Kamala Harris and the party suffered election defeats because they failed to appeal to key working class voters. The vice president's ...

“The Democrats have become the party of the over-credentialed college elites. They hate the working class. They have contempt for them. And the working class is noticing,” author Batya Ungar-Sargon ...

As the 2024 presidential race enters its final week, media coverage has increasingly focused on the candidates’ efforts to win over a supposedly crucial swing group: working-class voters. We think ...

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani at the Caribbean Day Parade, September 1, 2025. Credit: Andrea Renault/STAR MAX/IPx 2025 A number of progressive groups close to the Democratic Party and ...

Conservatives claim that Donald Trump’s electoral victories show that his Republican Party, not the Democrats, now represents the working class. Sen. Josh Hawley tweeted on election night 2020, “We ...