Thomas Frank

What's the matter with left-populism? A review of Thomas Frank's "The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism."

According to conventional wisdom, the last quarter century of elections has proved that most of the country leans conservative. It all started with a map.

Can the Clinton campaign slogan chart a path forward for Democrats? Its history tells another story.

Jim Ruland’s book on the legendary punk label helps explain why we lack a meaningful counterculture today.

After abandoning its working-class roots, the news business is in a death spiral as ordinary Americans reject it in growing numbers.

Long before Trump, politicians on the country’s West Coast mobilized a white working-class base through violent hate of Chinese and Japanese immigrants.

What accounts for white tribalism?

The road to right-wing deregulation began on our nation's highways.