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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

A research scientist is gaining surprising momentum in the race to helm Iowa’s Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship. Running on a platform centered around water quality, cancer and ...

Not long after I started working as a photographer and a writer, I was driving up a rural road in Oasis, California, on the west side of Coachella Valley, not far from the Salton Sea, where I saw a ...

Over a century after the 1924 Indian Citizenship Act officially recognized Native American people born in the United States as citizens, voting rights advocates and Native communities are now ...

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 ...

For much of the 20th century, rural and urban voters often aligned in their support for presidential candidates. In 1976, when Jimmy Carter was elected, rural and urban residents voted within one ...

In a crowded field of major names vying to replace Maine’s term-limited Gov. Janet Mills (D), Troy Jackson, a 5th generation logger from rural Maine who is running in the state’s Democratic primary, ...

In March 2025, the Trump administration abruptly froze more than $1 billion in funds for local food purchasing programs, dealing a major blow to the schools, food banks and tribal communities who ...