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 ...

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

The movement to ban glyphosate grows but some Democratic leaders and environmental groups are reluctant to regulate ...

While news-grabbing primaries have featured populist versus establishment matchups, Iowa is facing two different forces: MAHA ...

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

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.

Sarah Ladd is a Louisville-based journalist from West Kentucky who’s covered everything from crime to higher education. She spent nearly two years on the metro breaking news desk at The Courier ...

The Trump administration’s attempts to federalize and delegitimize elections has found its analogues in some rural counties. In response, local organizers are stepping up to protect the vote.

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 ...

Earlier this month, Bennett’s third novel in the series, A Trade of Blood, debuted on the New York Times fiction best seller list at #10. The story follows Ana, a detective for the Empire of Khanum, ...