Politics & Policy

Rural Democrats rally behind the Harris-Walz ticket but recognize the challenges ahead

Vance’s extreme agenda runs counter to the rural culture of helping one’s neighbors

With its Loper Bright decision, the Supreme Court has crowned itself the final arbiter of the world’s largest economy.

How Annie Contractor helps create systemic change from the ground up

A small town union leader on building Vermont’s labor movement for a new generation

What Worthington’s history of welcoming immigrants can teach us about overcoming a polarized culture

With Health Care for America Now!, Margarida Jorge is building a coalition with a winning record of reform

Blue Cross of North Carolina counts the Farm Bureau, a champion of industrial hog farms, as a major customer

Michael Osterholm breaks down what the bird flu is, why it’s spreading to dairy cows and the pandemic lessons we failed to learn

After hours of contentious debate over nutrition, conservation, the definition of “cuts” and the meaning of “bipartisanship,” the Republican-led committee passed a bill that crossed several of Democrats’ “red lines”