A hulking steel plant in Middletown, Ohio, is the city’s economic heartbeat as well as a keystone origin story of JD Vance, ...

Commentary by Jeff Minick Grandpa and Grandma, Pop-Pop and Nana, Granddaddy and Gran, Abuelito and Abuela, and in parts of ...

Yet Vance’s book about growing up in a struggling city in southwestern Ohio became a go-to primer for explaining the Trumpian turn in American politics. One reviewer even likened Vance to an ...

Today’s Republican Party aspires to be a pro-family movement, but it has struggled to turn that desire into much more than a ...

JD Vance took his experiences as a self-proclaimed hillbilly and used them to write a bestselling book and propel himself to ...