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Project 2025’s plans for the Department of Agriculture call for eliminating many conservation programs that have broad support among farmers.

There will be many stories about the 2024 election. Still, at its core, Donald Trump’s victory was built on expanding his margins and vote totals even further in rural counties across the country, ...

Donald Trump was elected the nation’s 47th president in the early morning hours after Election Day, returning to the White House with a decisive win in both the electoral college and the popular vote.

This is the third story in a series of travel-based dispatches from rural America. Over the next few months, Oklahoma-based journalist Kristi Eaton will travel throughout rural America in search of ...

“Rural people know inherently what it means to be a good neighbor,” Lynlee Thorne says over the phone from her farm in Rockingham County, Virginia. It is late August, the week following the Democratic ...

Wenda Sheard became a candidate for public office not because she thought she’d win, but because nobody else was willing to run. The self-described grandma, attorney, former teacher and trained ...

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On October 3, Sauk County citizens gathered in Baraboo, Wisconsin, to meet with Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and discuss community concerns about the county’s publicly-owned ...

Since 1964, I have consistently voted for third-party candidates in presidential elections—but not this time. This year, I am tossing my political purity and sanctimony out the window and voting for ...