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 agriculture commissioner candidate Clayton Tucker is well-versed in populist language. The former Our Revolution organizer has no problem railing against corporate monopolies like Tyson, Cargill ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editors’ Note: One thing Republicans have understood for decades is the voting power of states will smaller populations. Thanks to the electoral college and the structure of the U.S. Senate, voters in ...

Maine, the nation’s most rural state, joined this year’s record-breaking spending in a midterm election year. The state’s highly contested June 9 primary races for governor and U.S. Senate saw nearly ...

For generations, America’s farm policy has claimed to support a simple premise: when family farmers succeed, our country succeeds. The farm bill, originally passed as the Agricultural Adjustment Act ...

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 ...