The election results reported in this story were updated on Nov. 17, 2024. Donald Trump was elected the nation’s 47th president in the early morning hours after Election Day, returning to the White ...

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 ...

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 ...

All too often, rural America is neglected by candidates at the top of the ticket. And when those candidates do the token farm stop, they often hit on a handful of tired messages about feeding the ...

Since 1964, I have consistently voted for third-party candidates in presidential elections—but not this time. This year, I am tossing my political purity and sanctimony out the window and voting for ...

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In the mid 1980s, Thomas Eich’s grandparents, who farmed corn and soybeans, enrolled in the newly established Conservation Reserve Program, administered via the U.S. Department of Agriculture to ...

Wenda Sheard became a candidate for public office not because she thought she’d win, but because nobody else was willing to run. The self-described grandma, attorney, former teacher and trained ...

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 ...

On October 3, Sauk County citizens gathered in Baraboo, Wisconsin, to meet with Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and discuss community concerns about the county’s publicly-owned ...

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 ...