In 2016, as Americans questioned why so many had voted for Donald Trump to become America’s 45th president – and again, how he was re-elected this week, JD Vance’s book appeared to have all the ...

A Fox News guest labeled Vice President JD Vance a "hillbilly" over his defense of the ICE shooting that killed Renee Nicole ...

A fellow Appalachian native challenged the 'Hillbilly Elegy' author over his stance on absolute immunity for federal agents.

“Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, and white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.” — J.D. Vance, “Hillbilly Elegy” I remember reading this line of Vance’s memoir for my history ...

Oscar Uhalde graduated high school in Athens, and is currently a freshman at Columbia University studying political science. In an age of increasingly shifting demographics, Democrats and Republicans ...

Five generations of Vances gathered in West Virginia last month for a reunion, singing hymns and swapping stories in a quiet park hugged by towering green mountains waiting to burst into autumnal ...

When President Donald Trump tapped Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his vice-presidential running mate, the then-senator’s 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis came back ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present and surface delightful treasures. Sign up here. At the close of his RNC speech ...

SOMERSET — JD Vance’s rural working-class upbringing, as chronicled in his bestseller ‘Hillbilly Elegy’, fits right in with the lived experiences in large swaths of small-town Pennsylvania. Or does it ...

Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance will square off against his opponent Tim Walz in a debate tonight. We can be almost certain that Vance will be confronted again with his recent false ...