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.

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, ...

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 ...

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

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, ...

Americans share fundamental values that inform our public education system: dedication to the common good; a learning space where all voices are respected; public resources that help students succeed; ...

Growing up on a farm in West Virginia in the 1980s and 1990s, Rae Garringer saw few reflections of queer identity or culture around them. After moving away to Massachusetts for college in 2003, and ...