This article draws from the author’s research for her book Landscapes of Care: Immigration and Health in Rural America, which examines health care in rural immigrant communities on Maryland’s Eastern ...

Since October 1, the majority in Congress has decided to shut down the government rather than make a deal to pass a budget that extends affordable health care. Even as Congress has disrupted vital ...

One of my pet peeves is getting solicited for campaign cash by a candidate for office—especially federal office—only to find out that said candidate’s website has no issues page. The art of ...

In September, Jasmine Burke, a paramedic with the Highland Rescue Team Ambulance District in Colorado, responded to a 911 call for someone with suicidal thoughts. That is all that anyone can know ...

When voters were sold an “America-first” vision last November, many farm families believed that meant standing up for the people who put food on our tables and steward the land. But when news broke ...

Southwest Virginia is the most Republican part of the state, and Russell County is deep in this net of macho identity politics , Christian culture, social media political engineering and the disparate ...

Until recently, if you drove down the main street in Cairo, Illinois, a majority Black community at the southernmost point of the state, you wouldn’t have been able to find a grocery store. Like many ...

Today’s young farmers contain multitudes, as varied as the paths—conventional and unconventional, the adventurous and sometimes tortuous—that lead them into farming. For Iriel Edwards, 25, higher ...

This is a tale about Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth, whose story has become part of the backstory of the politics and culture of our time. Hegseth is not only a proponent of Christian ...

Thomas Tweed’s transformative new history, Religion in the Lands That Became America: A New History (Yale University Press), begins and ends in the same place: a farm outside of Waco, Texas, where in ...

“If both rural and urban people have the same set of facts with which to express their concerns, perhaps they can reach common conclusions,” writes Gilles Stockton in his new book, Feeding a Divided ...

International food aid—the food grown by American row crop farmers—has been a hallmark of United States foreign policy since the beginning of the Cold War. Its untimely end by the Trump administration ...