Michelle is from New Haven, Connecticut, and was a hog farmer at the University of Pennsylvania. As Executive Director of the National Young Farmers Coalition, she provides strategic direction and ...

Texas is the birthplace of populism, and it may be one of the few states big and untrammeled enough to contain a figure as lively, clever and visionary as Jim Hightower. He has been called “America’s ...

In a crowded field of major names vying to replace Maine’s term-limited Gov. Janet Mills (D), Troy Jackson, a 5th generation logger from rural Maine who is running in the state’s Democratic primary, ...

It’s one of those places where if you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll miss the entrance. But, given the right winter weekend in this part of Wisconsin’s Northwoods, it’s also where you would ...

In his memoir, the author courageously shares his story, in particular, his dad’s story and his struggles keeping the dairy farm in Canaseraga, a rural town in Upstate New York. It is a story of ...

Even before the United States was conceived, there was dissent. During the 17th century religious dissent played a significant role in the planting and development of the English colonies. In the 18th ...

“It’s either this shit or fucking prison,” Nephi Craig told himself. It was 1998, and the White Mountain Apache was trying on his first chef’s uniform. An 18-year-old from northeastern Arizona, he was ...

Dick Flacks has a long and storied history in the progressive movement. He was a co-author of the Port Huron Statement by the Students for a Democratic Society, the 1962 manifesto credited with ...

This essay was originally published by Other Words, a free editorial service of the Institute for Policy Studies, a D.C.-based nonprofit. Two hundred fifty years ago, Americans rejected monarchy. They ...

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 ...

Farmers are searching for immigration reform like a lost desert wanderer scanning the horizon for water. But the oasis always turns out to be a mirage. Will this finally be the year for meaningful ...