Jim Tankersley The Washington Post

In the closing weeks of the presidential race, Hillary Clinton's campaign - and the outside groups that supported it - aired more television advertisements in Omaha than in the states of Michigan and Wisconsin combined.

For the past 40 years, America's economy has raked blue-collar white men over the coals. It whittled their paychecks. It devalued the type of work they did best. It shuttered factories and mines and shops in their communities. New industries sprouted in cities where they didn't live, powered by workers with college degrees they didn't hold.

Two trends have socked American workers over the past three decades. The economy has grown more slowly than it did in the decades after World War II, and the growth we've seen has disproportionately boosted the incomes of the very rich.

Americans in small towns and rural communities are dramatically less likely to start new businesses than they have been in the past, an unprecedented trend that jeopardizes the economic future of vast swaths of the country.

The Republican establishment began losing its party to Donald Trump on May 24, 2000, at 5:41 p.m., on the floor of the House of Representatives.

The new argument by best-selling author Thomas Piketty suggests inequality is a major driver of Middle Eastern terrorism.

One week ago, the Roseburg Rod and Gun Club hosted a gun show at the local fairgrounds. Two hundred vendors turned out.

In the closing weeks of the presidential race, Hillary Clinton's campaign - and the outside groups that supported it - aired more television advertisements in Omaha than in the states of Michigan and Wisconsin combined.

For the past 40 years, America's economy has raked blue-collar white men over the coals. It whittled their paychecks. It devalued the type of work they did best. It shuttered factories and mines and shops in their communities. New industries sprouted in cities where they didn't live, powered by workers with college degrees they didn't hold.

Two trends have socked American workers over the past three decades. The economy has grown more slowly than it did in the decades after World War II, and the growth we've seen has disproportionately boosted the incomes of the very rich.

Americans in small towns and rural communities are dramatically less likely to start new businesses than they have been in the past, an unprecedented trend that jeopardizes the economic future of vast swaths of the country.

The Republican establishment began losing its party to Donald Trump on May 24, 2000, at 5:41 p.m., on the floor of the House of Representatives.

The new argument by best-selling author Thomas Piketty suggests inequality is a major driver of Middle Eastern terrorism.

One week ago, the Roseburg Rod and Gun Club hosted a gun show at the local fairgrounds. Two hundred vendors turned out.