Theda Skocpol

Jan 24, 2025 | newrepublic.com | Theda Skocpol

Women and men in these grassrootsgroups met regularly, informed themselves about the local implications of Trumpinitiatives—above all about his push with Republicans to repeal Obama’sAffordable Care Act. Then they spelled out the dire consequences for patientsand hospitals and health clinics in their communities and states, speaking inplain English to neighbors, friends, and co-workers.

Jan 24, 2025 | yahoo.com | Theda Skocpol

For many Americans who voted against Donald Trump, the national news right now is hard to take, as Republican winners make over-the-top claims, business leaders bow down, and U.S. senators endorse dangerously unqualified Cabinet nominees. Worst of all are headlines like Politico’s postelection “The Resistance Is Not Coming to Save You.

Sep 29, 2024 | freebeacon.com | Lainey Newman |Theda Skocpol |Arlie Russell Hochschild |David J. Garrow

My immediate Pittsburgh neighbors believe we live on perhaps the loveliest block in Squirrel Hill, a street so semi-rural that it lacks sidewalks but hosts a seemingly 24-7 population of young deer. I don’t disagree, but I also know that I live in the Mon Valley, a.k.a. Steel Valley, named for the huge river—Monongahela—that allowed it to host America’s premier industrial powerhouse for many decades. Now it’s mostly all gone.

Oct 16, 2023 | beltmag.com | Lainey Newman |Theda Skocpol

By Lainey Newman and Theda Skocpol The following is an excerpt from Lainey Newman and Theda Skocpol’s Rust Belt Union Blues: Why Working-Class Voters are Turning Away from the Democratic Party to be published by Columbia University Press.