In September, Breanne Green was researching rising energy prices when she came across a public notice for a $1 billion, 1,07-acre data center proposal in Howell Township, Michigan, where she lives.

This story was published with permission from The Rural Route Review. Recent headlines have been filled with renewed talk from the Trump administration about taking over Greenland, perhaps seizing it ...

Dear Reader of The Nation, For too long, the story of rural America has been written by outsiders. The result? Caricatures, stereotypes and missed opportunities to understand the diverse communities ...

Last September, Rev. Matthew Trewhella, pastor of Mercy Seat Christian Church in Hartland, Wisconsin, a town of 10,000 in Waukesha County, gave a sermon titled “Charlie Kirk, TPUSA, and Homosex: A ...

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 ...

The election results reported in this story were updated on December 4, 2024, when the last House race, in California’s 13th Congressional District, was called. Donald Trump was elected the nation’s ...

This is the second story in a two-part series on the public history of trees, centered on the essay collection Branching Out: The Public History of Trees. Read the first part here. Until the 20th ...

Annie Contractor, 39, is the policy director at RuralProgress, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit whose mission to “empower everyday rural Americans with the nonpartisan movement building tools they need to create ...

This past June, my best friend Henry and I decided to resume one of our oldest traditions: in times of transition, we like to drive to someplace new, usually with little more than a general ...

In his new book, Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry (Island Press, 2024), Austin Frerick identifies contemporary “Barons” in seven different corporations—such as ...

This is the first article in a series of stories and interviews in which we ask rural organizers, elected office holders and political strategists what lessons are to be learned from the 2024 General ...

When Americans walk up to the meat case at their local supermarket or grocery store, they are looking for low prices on that package of pork chops, chicken wings or the holiday ham. Cheap food is a ...