Life on Earth has always adapted to variable weather patterns. But on today’s warming planet, extreme weather events are a symptom of greater climate variability that is confusing not only farmers and ...

Napoleon LaDuke was my great uncle. I’ve always had a liking for that name. He was a brown man from the Anishinaabe in Minnesota’s Northwoods who served in the Army in World War I and came back “shell ...

“Metro Surge,” the Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation unleashed on Minnesotans in early December, is the largest single deployment of immigration agents in the history of the country. In ...

“I look at the calendar, I can see it is December 30, 2025, but it feels like December 30, 1933, in Germany.” This first year of the Trump administration has seen a threefold rise in clients reaching ...

This story was published with permission from The Rural Route Review. Recent headlines have been filled with renewed talk from the Trump administration about taking over Greenland, perhaps seizing it ...

When I started high school in rural upstate New York in 2006, most of the adults I knew worked in farming, construction or hospitality. A handful of classmates in my grade had parents who worked as ...

“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 ...

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 the second story in a two-part series on the public history of trees, centered on the essay collection Branching Out: The Public History of Trees. Read the first part here. Until the 20th ...

The following is the fourth installment of “Reimagining Rural Cartographies,” a new Barn Raiser series exploring innovative and nontraditional forms of mapping. It is guest-edited by Lydia Moran and ...

The election results reported in this story were updated on December 4, 2024, when the last House race, in California’s 13th Congressional District, was called. Donald Trump was elected the nation’s ...

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 ...