Ever since Donald Trump’s election, a cottage industry of politicians, journalists, scholars and commentators has sought to understand what motivates Trump supporters. Theories have ranged from ...

Carlo Rotella might or might not be good with his hands, but to borrow Lyle Lovett’s phrase, he has “lights in his fingers.” Rotella has written a well-crafted book–a meditation, really–on the fate of ...

Painful, stiff, and grating knees may not just be a sign of aging—they may also be a sign of the times. But one thing that does seem clear is that our frames haven’t kept pace with our lifestyles.

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It was easier in the old days. Scholars could put together statistics on a country's population, its steel and coal output, and the size of its armed forces -- and one could then roughly measure its ...

From the heart of Birmingham's concrete humdrum, and the cobbled routine of daily struggle, Big Special are a duo kicking hell out of the odds right now. Through the smokestacks that backdrop their ...

Supporters of President Trump hold a rally near Trump Tower in New York on Feb. 5. (Bryan R. Smith/Agence France-Press via Getty Images) Ever since President Trump’s election, a cottage industry of ...

In the 1950s, every region of Britain had industrial clout. Then came postindustrialism, a disastrous intellectual fad that has proved to be no substitute for advanced manufacturing Anyone puzzled by ...

This is the second of two posts. Read the first one here. As they try to understand what happened in November 2016 in the industrial heartland, Democratic strategists are focusing on the “rural and ...