Arts & Culture
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What Rural America Can Learn from Haitian Immigrants
Immigrant communities have developed sophisticated survival strategies. Those lessons can serve rural people facing their own crisis of abandonment.
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A Strategy to Heal America’s Rural-Urban Divide
Political scientist Suzanne Mettler sees county party chairs as key to our democracy
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Our Readers’ Favorite Books of 2025
The books—old and new—that our readers and staff enjoyed this year
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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
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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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Coal Country Thanksgiving
The meaning of an old mountain tradition before it became “heritage cooking”
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At Gilliard Farms, Food, Healing and Heritage Grow Together
For 150 years, a family of Gullah Geechee descent has preserved their story through family land
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On Caucus Day in Iowa, a Different Kind of Spin Cycle
Ordinary acts of care teach us to look beyond false claims to glory
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October 2, 2025
How an Oil Boom Town Is Building New Opportunities Outside of the Oil Field
A decade after the Bakken oil rush, Watford City has remade itself into a growing community by keeping young people local
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Culture
September 29, 2025
Farm Aid, at 40, Offers a Lifeline for Farmers Facing Their Worst Crisis in Decades
Willie Nelson, Neil Young and Bob Dylan headline a milestone 12-hour benefit concert
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History
July 24, 2025
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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