Nearly two decades later, the wounds of the Great Recession’s housing crisis in rural America continue to have significant consequences for rural economies and mental health. (Kevin Anderson, Flickr) ...

Congress is set to take away federal funding for PBS and NPR, the most trusted media in the U.S. The hardest hits will come for rural stations.

America’s Public Lands Could Still Be Up for Sale Utah Sen. Mike Lee wants to solve the West’s housing crisis by selling public land. Behind him is a coterie of developers and conservative think tanks ...

Keeping Farmland in Farmers’ Hands Farm transfers are complex. Anna Sekine helps farmers pass their land to the next generation.

Voters, not Big Money, should chose Democratic nominees. That will take a serious plan of reform—starting with campaign finance.

The billionaire-led push to siphon public funds to private religious schools faces a backlash from rural voters who make up the GOP base.

Grocery co-ops help democratize food access in food deserts. Now they could take off in communities across rural and small town America.

For Iriel Edwards, movements of food and racial justice are key to connecting people with ancestral and deep ecological knowledge.

The Indigenous Growers Reviving Hemp’s Deep Roots “Cannabis and hemp offer solutions to many challenges in an industrial society” ...

Through the Bdote Learning Experience, Indigenous artists are recreating Minnesota’s maps from a Dakota perspective.

American family farmers have been left holding the bag from the corporate-driven anti–family farm policies of the last 60 years.