The working class is the only group of people comedians can safely make jokes about, Ricky Gervais claims. Jokes about other ...

“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 ...

What have we been conditioned to think an effective classroom looks like? For many, it’s a vision that includes tables of students sitting quietly, working diligently as the teacher walks around or ...

The 2024 election is going to come down to swing voters in six or seven swing states. As they always are, the results are going to be extremely tight. A combination of factors will determine the ...

Kaela Berg, a single mother and flight attendant without a college degree, is one of the few state lawmakers across the nation who qualify as “working class,” according to recent research. (Courtesy ...

Less affluent Americans are pessimistic about the direction of the economy, the country and Trump’s handling of the ...

The idioms of a language—its jokes, expressions, and well-worn wordplay—are windows into its speakers’ values and points of view. In both French and English, certain phrases—métro, boulot, dodo ...

Reconnecting the Democratic Party to the working class is an electoral and a moral imperative, and it will be my mission for the rest of my life. In late fall, I was in a break room with 10 or so ...

The theory seemed sound: Stabilize financial markets, support the poor and promote a more secure, integrated world. But blue-collar workers were left behind. The Democratic Party’s estrangement from ...

Taxes are something that you cannot simply avoid. Working-class Americans often find themselves at a disadvantage. The tax changes don’t seem to help them in the way policymakers intend. Income ...