An interest in different cultures led Matthew Mahar to pursue an anthropology minor in college and to subsequently travel extensively. More recently, it’s ...

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Trump administration policies will have an outsized impact on rural America, where the economy and demographics conspire to put rural communities at risk ...

For a few weeks last fall, during the final stretch of the presidential race, there was a bit of a sense that the Democrats ...

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On April 5th, 2025, people took to the streets across the country to protest the Trump administration’s broad actions aimed at reducing, defunding, and - ...

I have never been shy about admitting that my number one criterion for selecting a candidate in a political race is their sensitivity to issues directly ...