The Senate budget bill threatens the viability of rural hospitals across the country and imperil millions of low-income Americans.

Mikey Weinstein didn’t want to fight the Pentagon. But he saw no other choice. As the founder and president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), Weinstein’s battles—in the courts and ...

Democrats, There’s a Way Out of The Political Mess We’re In My offer to current and future Democratic candidates who want to do better in rural America ...

International food aid—the food grown by American row crop farmers—has been a hallmark of United States foreign policy since the beginning of the Cold War. Its untimely end by the Trump administration ...

In recent weeks, ICE has stepped up raids on immigrant dairy farm workers, casting a sense of deep unease across the industry.

The secret origin of PFAS 'forever chemicals' lies in the insatiable corporate appetite for profit after the accidental discovery of Teflon.

On the day of his inauguration, President Donald Trump claimed his administration would end the “censorship of protected speech.” But actions speak louder than words. Thanks to a leaked email memo, we ...

Tapping sugar maple trees is a rite of spring among Native people in the North Woods where they have been making maple syrup for centuries.

The billionaire-led push to siphon public funds to private religious schools faces a backlash from rural voters who make up the GOP base.

Farmers are speaking out after the USDA's decision to terminate programs that helped schools, food banks and tribes buy fresh food.

Eight years after the Standing Rock Protests, the owner of the Dakota Access Pipeline is taking Greenpeace to trial to suppress dissent.

The division of the Midwest into the “Jeffersonian” grid was not inevitable. In re-imagining these lines, we might awaken a new future.