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What Rural Voters Think About Trump as the Midterms Approach
Economic frustrations test Republican support
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Photo Essay
A New System of Labor Threatens Farmworker Power
Harvesting machines and H-2A visas are concentrating power with growers and away from self-organized farmworker crews
Essay and photography by David Bacon
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How Do You Build Working-Class Solidarity in Rural America?
Beth Howard writes that to mend divisions we must “love harder”
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Indigenous Language Revivals in the U.S. and Ireland
A new book and video project showcase connections among language, culture and the natural world
September 15, 2026
Native Americans Build Strategies to Overcome Voter Suppression
Trump administration targets a voting bloc that could decide election results in multiple states
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September 16, 2026
Got Oxy? How Michigan’s Mike Rogers Helped Fuel the Opioid Crisis
The Republican Senate candidate spent 10 years in Congress as Pharma’s point man working to push prescription opioids
Alexander Zaitchik, Drop Site News
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Politics & Policy
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Rural Organizations Step Up to Protect the Ballot Box
Trump’s attempt to federalize elections targets rural voters
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For These Rural Teens, Organizing Is Their Extracurricular
A high schooler confronts isolation and disconnection in rural Maine
Food & Agriculture
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Do Rural Residents Have the Power to Say No?
From CAFOs to data centers, corporate America dodges local control
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Deere Settlement Is a Win for the Right to Repair. But Advocates Say There’s a Catch
FTC settlement has raised questions about why the Trump administration chose not to pursue a trial
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The Save Our Bacon Act Won’t Save American Farms
The bill supports multinational corporations and not independent farmers like me
Special Reports
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Data Centers
Scenes from the rural uprising to Big Tech data centers
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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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Wendell Berry Helped Me See Grief Can Be a Gift
A fallen tree, a front porch and a call to root and rise
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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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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 the DCCC
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What Are We Waiting For?
From the Old Country: Reflections on our “hospital years”
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Wendell Berry, Kentucky Writer, Farmer and Advocate, Dies at 92
When Berry left New York City and returned home to Kentucky in the 1960s, he did so with “some fear and trembling, but also a sense of doing the right thing”
Sarah Ladd, Kentucky Lantern
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The Music of Progressive Patriotism
When social movements need to march in beat, Dick Flacks gives them a song
Religion
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This Reconstruction-Era Church Is a Place of Sanctuary, Liberation and Reunion
With many rural churches closing their doors, Riverhill has found a way to thrive for over 150 years
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Defusing the Christian Right Requires Understanding It and Offering Something Better
Respectful dialogue begins by listening to people’s beliefs and values
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County Before Country
How a Wisconsin pastor is leading the far-right crusade to criminalize LGBTQ people and destroy Western Christianity
History
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How Dissent Shaped America
From 17th century religious dissenters to Occupy Wall Street, dissent has been an integral part of our history
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Texas’ Radical Past Points to a Possible New Future
The People’s Party history shows how to build a working-class movement
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Native Life
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Native Americans Resist SCOTUS Voting Rights Decision
Callais ruling has ramped up gerrymandering—and could choke off Native access to the polls
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Georgia Garden Connects Cherokee Nation to Its Roots
Tribal elder helps safeguard Cherokee culture with more than 400 traditional plants