The past decades have not been kind to all of America's cities, with some seeing huge population drops. Here are five that ...

The Rust Belt, linguistically speaking, is one of America’s newest regions. The name was largely popularized in 1984 by, of all people, Walter Mondale. At a campaign stop during the presidential ...

They are some of the many regions that share distinct characteristics and make the US so diverse. The United States can be divided and subdivided into countless regions, each sharing a unique set of ...

We've seen the fortunes rise for America's cities on the east and west coasts, and the cities of the Sun Belt continue their rapid acceleration in growth and prosperity. Where I live, in the capital ...

Step aside Boston, New York City, San Francisco and Seattle. Sorry, but you’re just not cool anymore. These days, you need to have crumbling roads, triple-decker ...

In his second novel, author Ken Jaworowski returns to the fictional Rust Belt town of Locksburg for more page-turning action.

CINCINNATI – Attention, New York and Washington media: It's time to stop smearing us with the Rust Belt epithet. I read a lot of stories about the presidential race in the New York Times, Washington ...

We don't converse on cellphones the size of bricks anymore, wear slap bracelets or sport big hair. So why are we still using another relic from the 1980s -- the phrase "Rust Belt" -- to describe a ...

The Rust Belt, the postindustrial midwest, flyover country. Are these terms—which describe the area roughly from Wisconsin to Buffalo, New York—useful anymore? Were they ever? Every four years, the ...

This piece originally appeared on Rust Wire. A city must know itself—its identity—so that it can attract people whose tastes align with what the city is really all about, minus the cookie-cutter banal ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- “You don’t really think of Rust Belt cuisine as being vegan,” Meredith Pangrace said. “It’s an oxymoron.” Well, it’s no longer an oxymoron, thanks to “Rust Belt Vegan Kitchen,” a ...