Rust Belt. Sun Belt. Bible Belt. Grain Belt. Barbecue Belt. Beltway. The United States it may be, but in reality, America is a patchwork of regions. And now these terms and others, which evolved from ...

The economic forces that built American cities have disappeared. These fundamental economic changes left in their wake two types of places — those that adapted and those that did not. What caused them ...

Donald Trump's first election redrew the map of American politics; suddenly Pennsylvania and Michigan were in the Republican column for the first time since the 1980s. But they didn't stay there: The ...