Michigan’s primary season is in full swing, and candidates running at every level of office, from city council to the U.S. Senate, are staking out their positions on data centers. Over the past year, ...

On December 17, for the first time in her life, Julie Farrar went viral. It started midday when Farrar got a text. It said that New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) was headed to the upscale Crossgates ...

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 ...

For years, the 686 residents in and around the small town of Stella, in Oneida County, Wisconsin, have been fighting for safe drinking water after discovering high levels of PFAS contamination in ...

In his address to the nation on July 16, President Trump charged, without evidence, that American elections are not secure and stated that Congress “must pass” the SAVE America Act. Less than a week ...

While there’s a lot of focus and money being spent on the midterms fast approaching in November, experienced and well-connected politicians on both sides of the aisle are already jockeying for the ...

J.D. Scholten, in his recent piece in Barn Raiser [“America Can Grow Its Own Food Again,” July 17], argued that one of the problems with American agriculture is that Iowa and other productive regions ...

Just as we arrived at the shanty, before we had time to look at it or the scenery about it, David and I jumped down in a hurry off the load of household goods, for we had discovered a blue jay’s nest, ...

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 ...

Farmers are searching for immigration reform like a lost desert wanderer scanning the horizon for water. But the oasis always turns out to be a mirage. Will this finally be the year for meaningful ...

The Midwest is known for its rows and rows of corn and soybeans that uniformly cover the landscape. But in central Missouri, farmer Linus Rothermich disrupts the usual corn and soybean rotation with ...

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 ...