Why Middle-Class Americans Say Life Is Unaffordable NYT | Top Stories Sabrina Tavernise 20 December 2025 at 18:00 Economists say that a typical middle-class family today is richer than one in the 1960s. Americans in their 20s and 30s don’t believe it. © Kim Raff for The New York TimesAlicia Wrigley and her husband, Richard Gailey, both musicians and teachers, live in Salt Lake City with their 2-year-old.
Times Readers Open Up About the Real Cost of Motherhood NYT | Top Stories Emily Holzknecht, Adam Westbrook and Jessica Grose 26 June 2025 at 00:32 What’s the real cost of motherhood? Here’s what our readers said.
Why the ‘Affordability Hoax’ Is a Trap for Trump NYT | Opinion Thomas B. Edsall 10 December 2025 at 06:57 I doubt this was what Trump meant when he called himself “Mr. Brexit.”
Trump Wants to Revive Shipping. He Will Need More Mariners. NYT | China Peter Eavis 12 November 2025 at 02:27 Few American are becoming mariners today, but demand could soon rise because President Trump and a bipartisan group of legislators in Congress want to revitalize the American shipbuilding industry.