Sarah Jaffe

Lean any way you want; the view from the bottom of the economic system doesn’t change.

Arkansas’ evangelical culture enabled Wal-Mart to grow without its employees having any power to negotiate for better working conditions. But as it grew to become the world’s largest retailer, it expanded into urban and other areas with markedly different cultures—a transformation that looks to be changing the balance of power.

Is the faith-talking, centrist, “new breed” of Democrat like Heath Shuler on its way out?