Decoding the myth of “real America” and how the Republican party reinvented itself as the party of rural America.

For the past half century, the Christian Right has been mastering the tools of electoral democracy in order to erode and end it. The methods and the players have evolved over time, but the goal of ...

After hours of contentious debate over nutrition, conservation, the definition of “cuts” and the meaning of “bipartisanship,” the Republican-led committee passed a bill that crossed several of ...

If Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wins the White House in November, his next administration comes armed with plans for a massive deregulation of federally-owned public land—your land, ...

As a September 30 deadline looms to pass a new farm bill, farm groups and agriculture leaders of all stripes are stepping up calls for Congress to act, warning that too long of a wait for a new bill, ...

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In 2016, Maine dairy farmer Fred Stone learned his farmland was contaminated by a class of synthetic chemicals known as PFAS when a local water district tested a well it maintained on Stone’s land.

This is part two of a two-part series. Read part one here. “You see that new building over there with the roof and red barn?” asks Bob Walton as he guides me through the dirt roads of Isabella County ...

Two weeks after her husband was named the Democratic Party’s nominee for vice president, Gwen Walz still seemed to be taking it all in. “It’s been just a few days,” Walz said. “We are learning a lot.” ...