Dayton Martindale is a freelance writer and former associate editor at In These Times. His work has also appeared in Boston Review, Earth Island Journal, Harbinger and The Next System Project. Follow him on Twitter: @DaytonRMartind.
Rural America
Human Ego and the Grizzly Bear: Is the West Big Enough?
Dayton Martindale
Rural America
Vatican Country: American Farmers on the Agricultural Message of Pope Francis
Dayton Martindale
Rural America
The Stolen Children of Maine: Native Wabanaki Seek Truth, Reconciliation Amidst a Cultural Genocide
Dayton Martindale
Dispatch
How Columbia Became the First University to Divest from Private Prisons
Thanks to relentless student pressure, more than a year of rallies, protests and sit-ins proved too much to ignore.
Dayton Martindale
Rural America
Beating Swords into Plowshares, Poison Gas into Pesticides
Dayton Martindale
New Lawsuit Alleges Systemic Abuse of Solitary Confinement in Illinois
Dayton Martindale
Rural America
Ag-Gag Laws: The Less You Know The Better
Dayton Martindale
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