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Rust Belt Union Blues: how Trump wooed workers away from the Democrats

From the parking lots of Pennsylvania steel country to the megachurches of Michigan, a new book traces a great political migration that has transformed the US electoral landscape

The Guardian - US · Sep 23, 2023

At the site of the Ohio train derailment, Trump fires up his 2024 battle plan

America’s union workers were crucial to Donald Trump’s victory in 2016, but key to his defeat in 2020, writes John Bowden

The Independent UK · Feb 22, 2023

Editorial: Delay in making naloxone an over-the-counter drug to counter opioid overdoses was deadly

It's been six years since a startling story in The New York Times detailed how fatal opioid overdoses were tearing through rural regions of the United States "like a plow through soil." The report came as the nation was beginning to grasp that it faced the deadliest wave of drug…

Tribune News Service · Jan 11, 2023