Project 2025’s plans for the Department of Agriculture call for eliminating many conservation programs that have broad support among farmers.

Wenda Sheard became a candidate for public office not because she thought she’d win, but because nobody else was willing to run. The self-described grandma, attorney, former teacher and trained ...

“Rural people know inherently what it means to be a good neighbor,” Lynlee Thorne says over the phone from her farm in Rockingham County, Virginia. It is late August, the week following the Democratic ...

Benton Harbor, Mich.—Abandoned houses, time-worn homes and nicely kept houses fronted by costly cars. Cracked sidewalks. Forgotten, dusty yards and grassy well-trimmed lawns. The poor and very poor ...

All too often, rural America is neglected by candidates at the top of the ticket. And when those candidates do the token farm stop, they often hit on a handful of tired messages about feeding the ...

In the section titled, “Every Holler Has A Creature,” Muncy and Schultz explore Appalachia’s “holler life” through several stories they have collected over their research. In its most narrow ...

Since 1964, I have consistently voted for third-party candidates in presidential elections—but not this time. This year, I am tossing my political purity and sanctimony out the window and voting for ...

In late 1966, residents of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, began reporting encounters with a six- or seven-foot tall creature with glowing eyes and large wings. Local papers dubbed it the “Mothman,” ...

The rural vote is vital on November 5. Even a small shift in the electoral margins of rural counties could determine the outcome of the presidential election in battleground states. Down ballot, the ...

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This is the third story in a series of travel-based dispatches from rural America. Over the next few months, Oklahoma-based journalist Kristi Eaton will travel throughout rural America in search of ...