Data center hyperscalers promise the same fat pitch of jobs and revenue CAFOs once did. They’ve also learned about how to destroy local resistance.

In Marjorie Taylor Greene’s former district, Shawn Harris is trying to pull off something Democrats have been unable to do: win a seat in Congress.

In his new book, Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry (Island Press, 2024), Austin Frerick identifies contemporary “Barons” in seven different corporations—such as ...

Hightower subsequently republished the text of his speech on Jim Hightower’s Lowdown, which led readers to ask why people in rural areas—particularly farmers—vote for Republicans not Democrats.

Running for office and organizing in Oklahoma is tough, but even tougher as a young person organizing in rural Oklahoma. In 2023, Arturo Alonso-Sandoval, a Democrat who represents Oklahoma House ...

Americans’ celebration of 250 years of independence invites reflection on the Declaration of Independence and its values of equality, liberty and democratic renewal. Those values are a beacon to guide ...

Earlier this month, Bennett’s third novel in the series, A Trade of Blood, debuted on the New York Times fiction best seller list at #10. The story follows Ana, a detective for the Empire of Khanum, ...

Stephanie Woodard is an award-winning reporter who covers human rights and the rights of nature. She is the author of American Apartheid: The Native American Struggle for Self-Determination and ...

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 ...

Until recently, if you drove down the main street in Cairo, Illinois, a majority Black community at the southernmost point of the state, you wouldn’t have been able to find a grocery store. Like many ...