Rural America

The 2018 Farm Bill’s Hidden Agenda to Push Millions off Food Stamps

Justin Perkins

In the American West, Arbitrary Poverty Designations Are Shortchanging the Rural Poor

Elizabeth Zach

Rural Emergency: Hospital Closures Are Putting Farmers Out of Business

Debbie Weingarten

Farm Workers Are Under Attack For Doing a Job that Other Americans Won’t

Ruben Navarrette

A Look at Persistent Poverty and the Rural-Urban Divide in North Carolina

Gene Nichol

A Record Number of Native Americans Are Running For Office in 2018

Graham Lee Brewer, High Country News

How Agrochemical Corporations Suppress Public Records and Prevent Transparency

Camille Fassett

Wild Mares: My Lesbian Back-to-the-Land Life

Dianna Hunter

By the Numbers: A Look at Consolidation in U.S. Agriculture

James M. MacDonald and Robert A. Hoppe

Poll: Farmers Overwhelmingly Oppose Bayer-Monsanto Merger, Call For Antitrust Division to Reject Bid

Patrick Davis

A Native Coalition is Fighting for a Better 2018 Farm Bill

Kim Baca

Monsanto’s Toxic Legacy: An Investigative Reporter Talks Glyphosate

Tracy Frisch

Smithsonian Symposium Explores Complicated History of Native American Slaveholders

Ryan P. Smith

What if Organic Standards Were Bioregional and Written by Real Organic Farmers?

John Ikerd

Hey Liberal, You’re Late, but Welcome to the Local-Control Party

Thomas Linzey

Why Progressives Need to Rethink the Rural-Urban Divide and Build a Coalition

Sarah van Gelder

With the USDA’s Blessing, CAFOs Are Driving Organic Dairy Farmers Out of Business

Jim Goodman

Standing Rock Felony Defendants Take Plea Deals, Still Face Years in Prison

Joseph Bullington