JD Vance, who was raised Christian in a working-class Rust Belt community, has often credited Usha with expanding his perspective. Her Hindu faith and upbringing have introduced him to new ways of ...

Originally trained as an urban sociologist, Professor of Sociology Sandra Barnes has always been interested in issues of ...

Like Duggan and Detroit, these leaders are trying to revive aging cities suffering decades of Rust Belt reverses. Now Pontiac ...

The theory that populist economic policies can win back the working class for Democrats has been tried, and it has failed.

I doubt that many progressives in the United States have read J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy. Being based in the Philippines, a ...

In Düren, the AfD gained over 4,000 votes in the European elections last June, coming just 132 shy of overtaking Scholz’s Social Democrats — once the reliable voice of the working class. While the ...

In the book, Vance explored the grim reality of the lives of poor, white working-class Americans in a small Rust Belt town, where joblessness, poverty and violence were all par for the course.

Google searches for “Usha Vance religion” and “Usha Vance citizenship” have surged following her rise to prominence as the ...

Mr Vance was born into a far humbler environment in the steel town of Middletown, Ohio, raised in an unstable home by a drug-addicted mother, he leveraged his academic talent into a lucrative career ...

Trump made his original appeal to his base — the working and middle class — by pledging support for American workers who have been left behind, particularly in the Rust Belt and the south.

Rojas’ love for camping shaped her career in wildlife research, where she has bounced between urban universities and remote wildernesses. Before moving to the Adirondacks, she spent over a decade ...