Rural America
The mission of Rural America In These Times is to make the issues faced by rural America part of national discourse and to overcome the rural-urban divide.
We seek to build bridges, facilitate communication and foster cooperation between urban people who understand the value of a healthy and sustainable agricultural system, and the farmers in our rural communities that provide food that we all eat.
Latest Stories
Rural Kentucky Tenants Win Unprecedented Lease Agreement After Yearlong Campaign
How tenants in four federally-backed buildings in the South overcame intense retaliation and won a new contract from their out-of-state landlord.
Thomas Birmingham
Fortress Yellowstone
The ultra-rich are fortifying themselves inside one of America’s last intact ecosystems—with money plundered from ecological sacrifice zones around the world
Joseph Bullington
Rural Minnesotans Stand Up to ICE
As federal agents descend on small towns in Minnesota, residents are uniting to protect their immigrant neighbors.
Betsy Froiland
As Storms Displace Thousands in Rural Alaska, Federal Cuts Put Even More Communities in Peril
Warming seas, driven by climate change, are strengthening storms like the ones that ravaged Alaska Native communities along the state’s western coast in October.
Tim Lydon
In North Carolina, Immigrants Resist the U.S. “Language Graveyard”
Speakers of Hñähñu, an Indigenous language from what is now Mexico, are banding together to preserve their culture.
Anya Petrone Slepyan
Mobile Home Mobilization
How trailer park residents are banding together against the speculative real estate market.
Eleni Schirmer
The Battle for the Future of Farmwork
Trump’s immigration crackdown and a growing union effort are transforming Upstate New York into a battleground over who will grow our food and under what conditions.
Joseph Bullington
"Our Doors Would Have to Close": How Trump's Proposed Cuts Could Devastate Tribal Colleges
Tribal college leaders say the proposed funding cuts would violate the U.S. government's treaty responsibilities to Native nations.
Nora Mabie