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Edward McClelland

Edward McClelland is the author of “Young Mr. Obama: Chicago and the Making of a Black President” and “Nothin’ But Blue Skies: The Heyday, Hard Times and Hopes of America’s Industrial Heartland.” Follow him on Twitter at @tedmcclelland.

Donald Trump (AP/Gene J. Puskar)

Baby boomers have a Donald Trump problem: Immigration, nativism and the mythic golden age of the middle class

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Donald Trump (AP/Charles Krupa)

Inequality leads to authoritarianism: Why Trump is acting like “a generalissimo with a giant brass eagle on his hat”

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Bernie Sanders, HIllary Clinton (Reuters/Mark Kauzlarich/Mary Schwalm/Photo montage by Salon)

My day with Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton: Two Iowa rallies explain why Hillary may be about to blow a sure thing

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(AP)

Rahm Emanuel’s Nixon moment: The Laquan McDonald coverup will be his legacy

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(Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com/Salon)

The Christian right’s shocking conquest: Why religious moderates have disappeared from America

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Rahm Emanuel (AP/Charles Rex Arbogast)

“Pushed to the brink of extinction”: How Rahm Emanuel won — and became the biggest loser in Chicago

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(AP/Henry Griffin)

The month that killed the middle class: How October 1973 slammed America

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Rahm Emanuel, Jesus "Chuy" Garcia (Reuters/Yuri Gripas/AP/Kiichiro Sato)

Rahm Emanuel’s political nightmare: Jesus “Chuy” Garcia tells Salon why he’ll oust the Mayor

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Sally Field in "Norma Rae"

Why white men hate unions: The South, the new workforce and the GOP war on your self-interest

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Tea Party Patriots' Exempt America from Obamacare rally, on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Sept. 10, 2013. (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

Tea Party’s self-defeating hate: Why toxic resentment hurts their bottom line

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(Reuters/Carlos Barria)

America’s middle-class defeat: How Canada shamed the wealthiest nation on earth

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(AP/Alan Diaz)

Sears is dying: What the ubiquitous store’s death says about America

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"The Americans" (FX)

Communism saved the American worker

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(AP/Erik Schelzig)

You call this a middle class? “I’m trying not to lose my house”

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The Hanson Brothers, "Slap Shot"

Blame Canada! Fighting has turned hockey immoral

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(AP/Darron Cummings)

The “middle class” myth: Here’s why wages are really so low today

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(Wikimedia)

They spawned the 1 percent: How Washington and Lincoln explain inequality today

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(<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/user_view.php?id=1845142'>sturti</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>)

RIP, the middle class: 1946-2013

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(Reuters/Rebecca Cook)

Detroit is your problem, too

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Barack Obama delivers his concession speech in Chicago, Ill., March 21, 2000. (AP/Frank Polich)

Listen now: Obama ad from 2000 rails against racial profiling

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(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-235897p1.html'>Andrey Bayda</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Who killed Detroit?

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Slavic Village, Cleveland, Monday, Jan. 14, 2008. (AP/Tony Dejak)

Cleveland: Ground zero for the housing bubble

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Richard Marx (AP/Jeff Christensen)

Richard Marx hates my guts

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Barack Obama, ending his 2000 campaign for Congress (AP/Frank Polich)

Obama in 2000: “Pervasiveness of guns in this country contributes to violence”

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