In late August 2025, in Okanogan County, Washington, reporters and community groups received word their congressman, Republican Dan Newhouse, was meeting with the management of the Three Rivers ...

Kristina Reser-Jaynes can still recall a time when she’d never heard of school vouchers. Then, a few years ago, the Kickapoo school district in Southwestern Wisconsin that her daughters attend ...

The election results reported in this story were updated on December 4, 2024, when the last House race, in California’s 13th Congressional District, was called. Donald Trump was elected the nation’s ...

“If both rural and urban people have the same set of facts with which to express their concerns, perhaps they can reach common conclusions,” writes Gilles Stockton in his new book, Feeding a Divided ...

Annie Contractor, 39, is the policy director at RuralProgress, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit whose mission to “empower everyday rural Americans with the nonpartisan movement building tools they need to create ...

Until recently, if you drove down the main street in Cairo, Illinois, a majority Black community at the southernmost point of the state, you wouldn’t have been able to find a grocery store. Like many ...

Last year, the Biden administration announced major climate goals: achieving a carbon pollution-free power sector by 2035 and a net zero emissions economy by no later than 2050. Twenty-nine states and ...

It’s not likely that the word “overproduction” will feature much in this year’s farm bill debate. But in many ways, the status quo of overproducing corn, soybeans, wheat, rice, cotton and a handful of ...

This is a tale about Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth, whose story has become part of the backstory of the politics and culture of our time. Hegseth is not only a proponent of Christian ...

International food aid—the food grown by American row crop farmers—has been a hallmark of United States foreign policy since the beginning of the Cold War. Its untimely end by the Trump administration ...

This article draws from the author’s research for her book Landscapes of Care: Immigration and Health in Rural America, which examines health care in rural immigrant communities on Maryland’s Eastern ...

On the banks of Wounded Knee Creek, a dream died in 1890 in a brutal massacre. Today, 110 years later, on that same creek, a dream was born. That’s the work that Alex White Plume, traditional leader ...