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If you spend any time at all on the prairie, someone is going to hurl that quote by Willa Cather at…

Howard Finster, the Southern Baptist preacher and repairman who became known as “the grandfather of…

Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman John Boozman, a Republican from Arkansas, held a markup…

Last year, 2025, was the 75th anniversary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s)…

Editor’s Note: A version of this story first appeared in Mile Markers, a twice monthly newsletter…

This story was originally published by The Lens, an independent, nonprofit newsroom serving New…

Every week, Yonder Radio brings rural conversations with national reach to listeners around the…

Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily…

You know this rural neighbor – the elderly widow who lives alone at the dead end of a road bypassed…

Editor’s Note: A version of this story also appeared in The Good, the Bad, and the Elegy, a…

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed narrowly carried rural Michigan over Representative…

We hear constantly that rural and urban America have grown apart. The 2024 presidential map made the…

Editor’s Note: This post is from our data newsletter, the Rural Index, headed by Sarah Melotte, the…

This story was originally published by The Times Journal. EDITOR’S NOTE: It’s another fire season…

Annihilating The Hillbilly Redux: Appalachia’s Struggle Against America’s Institutions is a…

For eight states, about 10% of their allotment from the Rural Health Transformation Fund will go not…