J.D. Vance grew up in a Rust Belt town in Ohio, in a family from the hills of eastern Kentucky. His memoir details the social isolation, poverty and addiction that afflict poor white communities.| NPR
Black lung is completely preventable. And it's on the rise again.| In These Times
Vance’s form of far-right politics is so ominous because it responds in a primal, perverted way to something actual. We are caught under a heap of wreckage, an accumulation of social and historical trauma that we are largely without means of getting out of. Millions are dead, and millions more permanently sick, from a pandemic that everyone now pretends didn’t happen, and even more vigorously pretends is not still happening.| n+1
