Kristina Reser-Jaynes can still recall a time when she’d never heard of school vouchers. Then, a few years ago, the Kickapoo school district in Southwestern Wisconsin that her daughters attend ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced late Tuesday it will release previously authorized grant funds to farmers and small rural business owners to build renewable energy projects—but only if ...

It’s a frigid Saturday morning on February 22, as the historic Englert Theatre in Iowa City hosts Sen. Bernie Sanders on the second stop of “Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here,” a national tour ...

Kitaŋh! Wetu ahi. (Finally! Spring has arrived.) Spring is making its way here in Mni Sota Makoce (the Land of Cloudy Waters), and Waziya (Old Man Winter) is finally heading north. It is during this ...

Barbed wire, wooden planks, electric wire—for centuries, ranchers have used various fencing materials to constrain cattle into a specific grazing area. But for some, this time-honored practice needs a ...

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In 1973, Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz infamously instructed farmers: “Get big or get out.” Fast forward 52 years, and a handful of multinational corporations control America’s agricultural ...

A previous version of this article appeared on Working Class Storytelling, a Substack by the author. Courtney McCary-Squyres was going a bit stir-crazy. It was the pandemic and she was a mom of four, ...

In another blow to farmers and rural communities, on March 7 the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) abruptly froze more than $1 billion in funds for programs that gave schools and food banks money ...