The following is the third installment of “Reimagining Rural Cartographies,” a new Barn Raiser series exploring innovative and nontraditional forms of mapping. It is guest-edited by Lydia Moran and ...

On the morning of November 11, a technician for the 475-mile-long Line 6 pipeline, which runs from Superior, Wisconsin, to Griffith, Indiana, and is owned by the Canadian oil giant Enbridge, reported ...

In the wake of the 2024 election, Barn Raiser talks to prominent Native leaders and mentors, who tell us in edited interviews how and why their communities have long endured, even in divisive and ...

The following is the first installment of “Reimagining Rural Cartographies,” a new Barn Raiser series exploring innovative and nontraditional forms of mapping. It is guest-edited by Lydia Moran and ...

The following is the second installment of “Reimagining Rural Cartographies,” a new Barn Raiser series exploring innovative and nontraditional forms of mapping. It is guest-edited by Lydia Moran and ...

Donald Trump won the 2024 election with one of the smallest popular-vote margins in U.S. history, but in news deserts—counties lacking a professional source of local news—it was an avalanche. Trump ...

This story is a collaboration among Sierra, the magazine of the Sierra Club, WWNO and the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk, an independent reporting network based at the University of Missouri.

Dustin Watson looks over the pastures and woodlands he grew up on. Behind him is the farmhouse his great-grandfather built, not far from the chicken coops and tractor sheds his grandfather raised ...

The Right Wants to Divide Rural People and the Working Class. Here’s How We Unite.

Rural candidates, elected officials, political consultants and organizers discuss the results of the 2024 election, analyze what it means for rural communities and explain how that knowledge should ...

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 ...