Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wisconsin voters lining up to cast their ballots in the 2022 midterm election, Oct. 25, 2022, in Milwaukee. Scott Olson/Getty ...

Democrats are looking at a 2024 Electoral College map very few of them expected. President Joe Biden’s breakthrough 2020 wins in Arizona and Georgia seemed to confirm that the party’s future was ...

The Rust Belt, the postindustrial midwest, flyover country. Are these terms—which describe the area roughly from Wisconsin to Buffalo, New York—useful anymore? Were they ever? Every four years, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As presidential election results roll in, all eyes are on seven swing states, three of which are part of the "Rust Belt." The Rust ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. The Heartland region was once a hub of turn-of-the-century ...

Regional public universities produce the most four-year degrees for the most diverse set of students in the country. Yet the sector is underfunded and barely discussed in policy circles. This is a ...

For decades, we’ve watched Rust Belt cities decline while “superstar” cities, often driven by tech jobs, prosper. New research suggests tech jobs may be spreading out in the US—but not in the Rust ...

The economic forces that built American cities have disappeared. These fundamental economic changes left in their wake two types of places — those that adapted and those that did not. What caused them ...

Vice President Kamala Harris is the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. But can she win the presidency? Due to the wonders of the Electoral College system, the answer depends on how she will ...