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 ...

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.

I was 23 in January 1956 when I stepped off the Cunard liner Britannic on American soil for the first time. I had worked hard to save the £68 for the six-day journey from England. I was met in ...

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 ...

In March 2025, the Trump administration abruptly froze more than $1 billion in funds for local food purchasing programs, dealing a major blow to the schools, food banks and tribal communities who ...

I first came across Austin Frerick in The American Conservative in 2019. His story, “To Revive Rural America, We Must Fix Our Broken Food System,” with its plain-spoken, factual description of how Big ...

“Tear it Down!” Let us hope that Democrats and Republican officials who can locate their spines, along with historians, preservationists, and ordinary patriotic citizens, will tell our autocratic ...

Life on Earth has always adapted to variable weather patterns. But on today’s warming planet, extreme weather events are a symptom of greater climate variability that is confusing not only farmers and ...