We don't converse on cellphones the size of bricks anymore, wear slap bracelets or sport big hair. So why are we still using another relic from the 1980s -- the phrase "Rust Belt" -- to describe a ...

Voices from the Rust Belt, ed. Anne Trubeck, Belt Publishing, 256 pages. They call the wide expanse from the Northeast to the Upper Midwest the Rust Belt. The region’s geographical lines, subject to ...

Commentators in charge of explaining Donald Trump’s surprise victory seem to have settled on the idea that the white working class in the Rust Belt played a decisive role. In the New York Times, for ...

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 ...

This piece originally appeared on Rust Wire. A city must know itself—its identity—so that it can attract people whose tastes align with what the city is really all about, minus the cookie-cutter banal ...

Cleveland and other Rust Belt cities are making a comeback as young people sick of high prices in the big city look for more manageable places to live and cities capitalize on attracting a new ...

Two months ago, an epic battle between two of the longest-suffering fan bases in major league baseball took place to determine who would be this year's World Series champion. The Cleveland Indians ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- “You don’t really think of Rust Belt cuisine as being vegan,” Meredith Pangrace said. “It’s an oxymoron.” Well, it’s no longer an oxymoron, thanks to “Rust Belt Vegan Kitchen,” a ...

We've seen the fortunes rise for America's cities on the east and west coasts, and the cities of the Sun Belt continue their rapid acceleration in growth and prosperity. Where I live, in the capital ...