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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a trailer park “colonia” near the Salton Sea, a few miles north of Oasis, two men sit back against the battered silver skin of a mobile home. They’re still in their work clothes—one is older, ...

Texas is the birthplace of populism, and it may be one of the few states big and untrammeled enough to contain a figure as lively, clever and visionary as Jim Hightower. He has been called “America’s ...

Even before the United States was conceived, there was dissent. During the 17th century religious dissent played a significant role in the planting and development of the English colonies. In the 18th ...

Dick Flacks has a long and storied history in the progressive movement. He was a co-author of the Port Huron Statement by the Students for a Democratic Society, the 1962 manifesto credited with ...

Texas agriculture commissioner candidate Clayton Tucker is well-versed in populist language. The former Our Revolution organizer has no problem railing against corporate monopolies like Tyson, Cargill ...

This essay was originally published by Other Words, a free editorial service of the Institute for Policy Studies, a D.C.-based nonprofit. Two hundred fifty years ago, Americans rejected monarchy. They ...

Michelle is from New Haven, Connecticut, and was a hog farmer at the University of Pennsylvania. As Executive Director of the National Young Farmers Coalition, she provides strategic direction and ...