Ahliya Roy is a 5th generation Mainer, Maine School of Science and Mathematics student and Rural Youth Organizer for JustME for JustUs, a grassroots organizing nonprofit in Maine.

While news-grabbing primaries have featured populist versus establishment matchups, Iowa is facing two different forces: MAHA ...

In Marjorie Taylor Greene’s former district, Shawn Harris is trying to pull off something Democrats have been unable to do: win a seat in Congress.

Data center hyperscalers promise the same fat pitch of jobs and revenue CAFOs once did. They’ve also learned about how to destroy local resistance.

The Trump administration’s attempts to federalize and delegitimize elections has found its analogues in some rural counties. In response, local organizers are stepping up to protect the vote.

Rob Wallace, an evolutionary epidemiologist who researches how industrial agricultural structures influence disease emergence, is executive director of the Agroecology and Rural Economics Research ...

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 ...

Earlier this month, Bennett’s third novel in the series, A Trade of Blood, debuted on the New York Times fiction best seller list at #10. The story follows Ana, a detective for the Empire of Khanum, ...

University of Iowa water researcher Chris Jones has watched for decades as manure from concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), alongside runoff from monoculture corn and soy farms, polluted ...