Jeff Swope felt the first spurt of anger bubble up when he learned in February that his landlord was raising the rent on the empty two-bedroom apartment next door by more than 30%, to $2,075 a month.

As the G.O.P. has become a full-on antidemocratic party, why has it also remained the party of plutocrats and the enemy of any policy that might help its many working-class supporters? 

Median middle-class household financial assets show each generation’s savings may not be enough for retirement.

A new survey of voters in Arizona, Colorado, Virginia, and West Virginia

The minimum wage no longer breaks down along the traditional divide of business and Republicans on one side and labor and Democrats on the other.

Mr. Biden’s bottom-up $1.9 trillion aid package is a sharp reversal from the tax cut bill that was President Donald J. Trump’s first big legislative victory.