This article draws from the author’s research for her book Landscapes of Care: Immigration and Health in Rural America, which examines health care in rural immigrant communities on Maryland’s Eastern ...

A version of this story first appeared in The Cocklebur. Senate Republican leaders spent their weekend cutting deals, buying votes and otherwise using legislative budget tricks to get their own GOP ...

The election results reported in this story were updated on December 4, 2024, when the last House race, in California’s 13th Congressional District, was called. Donald Trump was elected the nation’s ...

Federal charges ordinarily cover matters of national reach: immigration, voting rights, racketeering and the like. Not in Indian Country. Tribal citizens may find themselves in federal court for a ...

Last year, the Biden administration announced major climate goals: achieving a carbon pollution-free power sector by 2035 and a net zero emissions economy by no later than 2050. Twenty-nine states and ...

In the book’s introduction, Stockton notes that according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2019, “209,007 farms produced 78.7% of commodity sales. The other 21.7% is shared by 1,820,192 small ...

Kristina Reser-Jaynes can still recall a time when she’d never heard of school vouchers. Then, a few years ago, the Kickapoo school district in Southwestern Wisconsin that her daughters attend ...

This past June, my best friend Henry and I decided to resume one of our oldest traditions: in times of transition, we like to drive to someplace new, usually with little more than a general ...

Cairo’s situation may be unique, but it’s not unusual in losing its grocery store. Limited or no access to food tends to be thought of as an urban phenomenon, but it affects rural communities just as ...

In February, a bill introduced to the Minnesota legislature proposed transferring all state-owned lands within the White Earth State Forest to the White Earth Nation by 2029. The bill also mandated ...

The post holds fast by the work of the half a million hands it takes to pass a note across geographies. In Benzie County, the crow flies in concentric community circles rather than straight lines.

This is a tale about Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth, whose story has become part of the backstory of the politics and culture of our time. Hegseth is not only a proponent of Christian ...