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Rust Belt
November 16, 2023
Magazine
Dan Simmons
The City That Just Might Decide the 2024 Election
Milwaukee’s sizable Black population is supposed to help put Biden over the top—but people there aren’t as put off by Trump as white liberals would hope.
August 18, 2022
Magazine
Timothy Noah
Tim Ryan: Right Man, Right Place, Right Time
The Buckeye State has grown redder and redder. The Democratic congressman could reverse that—and start to revive the Democrats’ working-class identity.
September 4, 2020
Magazine
Steven Greenhouse
A Bold New Plan to Turn the Rust Belt Blue
A well-funded Democratic group is wooing former union members whom liberals have long ignored.
March 5, 2018
Sarah Jones
Can Silicon Valley save the Rust Belt?
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 9, 2013
Nora Caplan-Bricker
How Many People in Your State Are Dying From Downwind Air Pollution?
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