A new system of labor is concentrating power with corporate agriculture and away from self-organized farmworker crews.

Native communities are hoping for the best but preparing for the worst in the upcoming midterm elections. Some are advising ...

Anna Sekine works as the Midwest Farmland Associate at American Farmland Trust. In this role, she supports programs focused on farmland protection, next-generation land access, and farm transfer ...

These high school students confront isolation and disconnection in rural Maine by organizing their peers to change policy.

Data centers, the economy and health care are forcing rural voters to reckon with a Republican incumbent in one of the ...

Glyphosate is the modern-day DDT. First developed in 1939 to kill malaria-causing insects for U.S. troops in the South Pacific, DDT became one of the most commonly used pesticides worldwide, but it ...

Ahliya Roy is a 5th generation Mainer, Maine School of Science and Mathematics student and Rural Youth Organizer for JustME for JustUs, a grassroots organizing nonprofit in Maine.

Today’s data center proponents argue such projects bring needed jobs and a boost to local economies. Rural America has heard confident pitches like these before. Nearly 40 years ago, concentrated ...

Before his July 16 speech to the nation on what he claimed was the illegitimacy of previous elections, President Donald Trump warned reporters, “Without free and fair elections, you don’t have a ...