The Republican promise is to cut taxes and regulation. But the numbers show just how badly that argument has failed.

Family premiums for employer-based health insurance jumped by 47% between 2011 and 2021, and deductibles and out-of-pocket costs shot up by almost 70%. The average price for brand-name drugs on Medicare Part D rose by 236% between 2009 and 2018.

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