(Image credit: Getty Images) What is “middle-class”? Although definitions may vary, the Pew Research Center might have an answer.A recent Pew report found that a family of three could be considered in the “middle” of upper and lower incomes when annual household earnings are between $56,6...

The Democratic Party’s problems have a two-word solution: “economic populism.”Or so suggests much recent commentary (including, to an extent, my own). Yet, the merits of “populist” economic policies depend a lot on how that term is defined.“Populism” is best understood as a rhetoric...