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 ...

Mikey Weinstein didn’t want to fight the Pentagon. But he saw no other choice. As the founder and president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), Weinstein’s battles—in the courts and ...

On a sunny day in late April, Barbara Damrosch, 83, stepped into boots and out the back door into the stone courtyard of her home in Brooksville, Maine. Thyme crept over the tidy rock pathways and ...

On the day of his inauguration, President Donald Trump claimed his administration would end the “censorship of protected speech.” But actions speak louder than words. Thanks to a leaked email memo, we ...

The tree sap looks just like ordinary water yet contains approximately 2% sugar content. Although he could collect sap until the trees begin budding, he usually stops collecting far earlier. Typically ...

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 ...

In another blow to farmers and rural communities, on March 7 the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) abruptly froze more than $1 billion in funds for programs that gave schools and food banks money ...

It’s been eight years since the water protectors were cleared off the banks of the Cannonball and Missouri Rivers. It was a bitter ending to a battle to protect the water at Standing Rock, and for ...

Initially, The Line was much shorter. In 2017, urban researchers Luis Hilti and Matilde Igual Capdevila drew a line from their Liechtenstein home to a gallery in Venice as a part of the 2018 Venice ...

Since the origins of CDPAP in New York, in 1982, a hodgepodge of different rules and regulations have governed it. In recent years, the running of this now $9 billion program—like so much of America’s ...

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 ...

Stef Ratliff is a 37-year-old artist in Louisa, a town of 2,500 in Lawrence County in rural eastern Kentucky. The Appalachian resident focuses on paintings and pottery and has been a working artist ...