Robin Johnson, 66, started his political career as a freshman in college with Jimmy Carter’s 1976 presidential campaign. Since then, he has advised rural candidates across the country, including his ...

This is the second in a series of interviews, in which we will ask rural candidates, elected office holders, political consultants and organizers what lessons are to be learned from the 2024 General ...

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.

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, ...

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The Jersey Devil, or Leeds Devil, has been an important figure in American folklore for over two centuries. Encounters with the Devil have been recorded in legends as varied as one featuring the 19th ...

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

The rural-urban divide has long hurt Democrats in rural America. Yet organizers at Rural GroundGame say they have a winning ...

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 ...

On a recent October morning, Guy Reiter and a dozen other citizens of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin set up a table at a community meal intended to celebrate their culture, heritage and ...

Benton Harbor, Mich.—Abandoned houses, time-worn homes and nicely kept houses fronted by costly cars. Cracked sidewalks. Forgotten, dusty yards and grassy well-trimmed lawns. The poor and very poor ...