LAKEWOOD, Ohio -- Architecture is in focus at the Beck Center for the Arts’ new “Architecture: From The Ground Up” exhibit.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Donald Trump's first election redrew the map of American politics; suddenly Pennsylvania and Michigan were in the Republican column for the first time since the 1980s. But they didn't stay there: The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two months ago, an epic battle between two of the longest-suffering fan bases in major league baseball took place to determine who would be this year's World Series champion. The Cleveland Indians ...

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 ...