Arts & Culture
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Finding Hope in Troubled Times
A new anthology assembles more than 70 voices of movement leaders across time and place
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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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What Are We Waiting For?
From the Old Country: Reflections on our “hospital years”
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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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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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‘Laboratories for Profound Biological Change’
If we paid attention to industrial agriculture, it could cause discomfort whenever we sit down to eat
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The Music of Progressive Patriotism
When social movements need to march in beat, Dick Flacks gives them a song
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A Farmer Reflects on Juneteenth
Liberation and the healing power of breaking free
From Midwest Connections
Midwest Connections
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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May 18, 2026
Why a Mexican Flag Flies in Trump Country
Rural America faces a choice around immigration–one of exclusion or shared community
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Native Life
May 4, 2026
Georgia Garden Connects Cherokee Nation to Its Roots
Tribal elder helps safeguard Cherokee culture with more than 400 traditional plants
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Culture
April 27, 2026
You Are Never Too Old to Believe in a Better Future
And that could be good for you
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