Some might think of farming in shades of green. On a morning in late August, at this strawberry field, in Ventura County, California, before anything has yet been planted, the land is largely black ...

Bari Senecal, 60-something, waits outside the emergency department the morning of August 7 at Columbia Memorial Hospital in the city of Hudson, New York, sitting on her aluminum-frame rollator.

I recently spotted a white Kia Sedona bearing Laramie County plates driving south on Yellowstone Road in Cheyenne, Wyoming; maybe the driver had just been to one of their kids’ schools. Wherever it ...

Editors’ note: J.D. Scholten is one of two rural Democrats in the Iowa House of Representatives. He describes himself as a Lina Khan Democrat (Khan was the Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

For the past half century, the Christian Right has been mastering the tools of electoral democracy in order to erode and end it. The methods and the players have evolved over time, but the goal of ...

The following is the first installment of “Reimagining Rural Cartographies,” a new Barn Raiser series exploring innovative and nontraditional forms of mapping. It is guest-edited by Lydia Moran and ...

It’s been eight years since the water protectors were cleared off the banks of the Cannonball and Missouri Rivers. It was a bitter ending to a battle to protect the water at Standing Rock, and for ...

On a sunny day in late April, Barbara Damrosch, 83, stepped into boots and out the back door into the stone courtyard of her home in Brooksville, Maine. Thyme crept over the tidy rock pathways and ...