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Essay
Will Trump Meet His Russian Winter in Minnesota?
ICE is up against cold-hardy people whose forebearers fought for justice
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Opinion
Rural America Knows How Greenland Feels. We Just Don’t Have Its Universal Health Care.
Like Greenland, rural America has a history of decisions being made by people who do not live with the consequences
What Happens When a Small Town Can’t Drink Its Water?
Nina Elkadi, Sentient
Nitrate pollution is straining small water facilities in Iowa, even when they have advanced filtration systems
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Opinion
Mr. Trump, Your Ballroom Will Not Stand
The White House ballroom project is outside the centuries-old boundaries of common law
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Are Americans Getting Sweet on Sorghum?
With maple syrup production shrinking as the world warms farmers see this ancient grain an alternative
Politics & Policy
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Voices of ICE Resistance Across Minnesota
Residents far outside Minneapolis are mobilizing to help their immigrant neighbors
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States Race To Launch Rural Health Transformation Plans
The clock is ticking for states to use federal money to fix systemic problems in rural health care
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Changes to Federal Loans Leave Rural Students Behind
Congress is helping widen the rural-urban gap in education and opportunity
Religion
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Five Seismic Shocks to the Military in 2025
A Christian Nationalist Agenda could threaten the freedoms of all Americans
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‘Disciples of White Jesus,’ Disciples of Trump
Pastor and author Angela Denker discusses what’s happening to white men and boys in Trump’s America
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Megachurches: Streaming to a Barn Near You
How Pete Hegseth’s former Minnesota church is leading the new Christian “crusade”
Special Reports
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Rethinking Immigration and Health in Rural America
How rural immigrants sustain networks of care and resistance in Maryland
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Protecting Rural Public Schools
The Movement to Defund Rural Public Schools
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The Fight to Prevent PFAS Pollution
Why PFAS—forever chemicals—contaminate wells in many rural areas
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Reimagining Rural Cartographies
Written and photo essays that examine nontraditional maps of the Midwest
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Who Does Lake Michigan’s Shoreline Belong To?
Public property. No trespassing? Man hopes his $313 ticket will reshape Lake Michigan shoreline access
Dan Egan, Wisconsin Watch
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Welcoming the Wolf at the Door
By protecting endangered wolves, conservationists support a healthy environment
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Ethanol Promised a Low Carbon Future. Its Climate Footprint Shows Otherwise
“King Corn” dominates U.S. farmland and fuels the ethanol industry. But the fertilizer it relies on drives emissions and fouls drinking water.
Food & Agriculture
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Robotics: The Last Nail in Rural America’s Coffin?
Farms without farmers are likely coming to a county near you
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‘Homesick for the Land Itself’
Author, farmer and advocate Brooks Lamb on cultivating common ground through love for the land
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Thanksgiving Is Built on Farmers. Our Food System Should Be Too.
Antitrust enforcement isn’t about punishing success. It’s about ensuring that farmers and eaters can thrive.
Native Life
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When We Win: Stories From the Frontlines of Ecological Resistance
After decades of struggle, indigenous leaders and organizers have shown how to win against billionaires and large corporations
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In Times of Trouble, My Mother’s History Tells Me We Shall Overcome
Our lives are marked by our creative journeys, both inward and outward
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History
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Barbara Kingsolver on the Women of the Great Arizona Mine Strike
“If we could just get rid of these broads, we’d have it made,” said an Arizona Department of Public Safety officer
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Iowa Republicans Are Erasing the State’s History
Sixty percent of the historical society archives are being trashed with no transparency
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How the U.S. Enlisted Farmers to ‘Feed the World’ in the 20th Century
As Trump eliminates U.S. international aid programs, a new history details the instrumental role Midwestern farmers played in establishing them
Barn Raisers
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Common Ground is Found at a Montana Barn Raising
The former speaker of the Montana House and Missoula mayor reflects on working together across differences
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Barn Raiser’s 2025 Year in Review
In a year of sweeping federal policy change and visionary rural organizing, Barn Raiser covered rural America from coast to coast
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Wendell Berry: What New York Times Columnist Paul Krugman Gets Wrong About Rural America
‘Those of us who speak for the country (“rural America”) must never give up’
Letters to the editor
Readers Respond to Wendell Berry
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Networks of Care: How Rural Immigrants Build Community
When formal systems fail, mutual aid sustains rural life
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From the Old Country: ‘Alive to Tell the Tale’
Life in your 90s means coming to terms with how much the world has changed
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How a Small Nebraska Town Became an Arts Destination
The Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art has put David City on the map