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 ...

A research scientist is gaining surprising momentum in the race to helm Iowa’s Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship. Running on a platform centered around water quality, cancer and ...

Not long after I started working as a photographer and a writer, I was driving up a rural road in Oasis, California, on the west side of Coachella Valley, not far from the Salton Sea, where I saw a ...

Long before the Lone Star State started shifting, in the 1990s, from blue to red—after a century of Democratic Party domination—some working-class Texans had a reputation for being a different kind of ...

“Can plants talk? Well, now they can! All you need is your phone,” Cherokee elder Tony Harris tells children visiting the Cherokee Garden at Green Meadows Preserve, in Marietta, Georgia. With ...

But fear and loathing do not constitute a political strategy for curbing the influence of would-be theocrats. Denouncing this movement as a subset of patriarchal white supremacist MAGA does not ...

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 ...

It’s a typical fall Friday evening in the upstate New York town of Fort Edward. Children are playing soccer under the lights. People are walking dogs as dusk settles over Mullen Park, a stone’s throw ...

For much of the 20th century, rural and urban voters often aligned in their support for presidential candidates. In 1976, when Jimmy Carter was elected, rural and urban residents voted within one ...

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, ...

In March 2025, the Trump administration abruptly froze more than $1 billion in funds for local food purchasing programs, dealing a major blow to the schools, food banks and tribal communities who ...