Thomas Mucha

For millions, the American Dream is fading. The middle class – the core of the world’s largest economy – is being gutted as incomes fall and once-reliable jobs disappear. But that's not the entire story. In this 10-month investigation, GlobalPost traveled from the shuttered factory towns of the United States to the emerging boomtowns of the deve...

The American middle class is in distress. Here's what that means to the world's largest economy, and the rest of planet earth.

Are we in for decades of slow growth? It looks that way to a Northwestern University economist. Here's the skinny.

The Occupy Wall Street protests represent a significant change in America's social contract. What does #OWS say about the country and its economic future?

Analysis: Political science says more unrest is coming. So how bad will it get?