The first announcement arrived in the mailbox outside my faculty apartment in early May. Inside a small white envelope was a card that read Congratulations, Class of 2012! It was covered with photos ...

Two hundred fifty years ago the American colonists revolted against George III. This year, citizens will stand up against another “mad king.” ...

On the main street of Republic, Washington, a community of about 1,000 near the Canadian border, the plain vertical façade of the town’s one-room public library belies the wealth of activity crammed ...

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 ...

The following is an excerpt from Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America by Sharon Udasin and Rachel Frazin, published by Island Press. You can purchase a copy here. Brenda ...

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 ...

Kitaŋh! Wetu ahi. (Finally! Spring has arrived.) Spring is making its way here in Mni Sota Makoce (the Land of Cloudy Waters), and Waziya (Old Man Winter) is finally heading north. It is during this ...

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 ...

In another blow to farmers and rural communities, on March 7 the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) abruptly froze more than $1 billion in funds for programs that gave schools and food banks money ...

It’s been eight years since the water protectors were cleared off the banks of the Cannonball and Missouri Rivers. It was a bitter ending to a battle to protect the water at Standing Rock, and for ...

The following is the fifth installment of “Reimagining Rural Cartographies,” a Barn Raiser series exploring innovative and nontraditional forms of mapping. It is guest-edited by Lydia Moran and funded ...