There is probably no topic on which confusion is more widespread than that of class in the United States. Equivocation about the meanings of words such as “elite” is widespread and often willful.

I didn’t know we had a class system in this country. But according to popular pundit descriptions, it seems we do. If so, I guess you would say that I grew up in the so-called “lower class.” ...

Levels of trust in this country—in our institutions, in our politics, and in one another—are in precipitous decline. And when social trust collapses, nations fail.

America’s two-party system continues to rely on the racial divisions Wallace exploited; racism prevents the class solidarity that could make America truly free. Until white Americans recognize that ...

It would be sad and ironic if Marx and Engels were right after all, and their worldwide revolution actually took root in the very place that supposedly conquered communism less than a few decades a… ...

One form of social support that many in the working class are going without is marriage. I’m reminded of another worker I interviewed, a jobless 54-year-old white woman who used to work at a ...

The recent fracas over PayPal's user policy raises the specter of such a dystopia: a de-banked future—driven by de facto social credit scoring—that is quickly becoming our present.

On Thanksgiving Day 2024, the broad mass of the population has precious little to be thankful for. The crushing weight of inflated costs for all necessities—housing, food, healthcare, childcare ...

Michelle Alexander is the author of the bestseller The New Jim Crow, and a civil-rights advocate, lawyer, legal scholar and professor.She spoke with FRONTLINE about how the war on drugs spawned a ...

And I think you see that in the way that center right parties —who have often been in power over the last three decades, much more so than from the 1930s through the 1970s — attack these ...

A new report shows that the percentage of black men in poverty has fallen and their share in the middle class has risen, write W. Bradford Wilcox, Wendy R. Wang, and Ronald B. Mincy.