“The urge to take control of our food supply is a sane one in times of insecurity, especially if we can do it in our own backyards,” she writes in her latest book, A Life in the Garden: Tales and Tips ...

In 2023, Trump-appointed Judge Iain D. Johnston of the U.S. District Court for the District of Northern Illinois ruled that John Deere must face similar claims from farmers who filed a class action ...

I knew the envelope’s postmark, too: Vanleer, Tennessee—a place with green hills and old tobacco barns and fences that no longer mark much, a place my third graders used to struggle to find on a map, ...

“The 21st century seems replete with examples as to why autocracies are, to put it mildly, very stupid” The more I think of it, the more I feel there is perhaps no other genre of fiction more enamored ...

On the main street of Republic, Washington, a community of about 1,000 near the Canadian border, the plain vertical façade of the town’s one-room public library belies the wealth of activity crammed ...

In recent years, public schools have been under attack from from outside groups that profess “parents’ rights” and advocate for “school choice.” The leaders of this anti-public school movement has ...

PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals,” are used by industry and are found in consumer products such as nonstick cookware. They can cause cancer, birth defects, liver problems, damage to the immune ...

“If both rural and urban people have the same set of facts with which to express their concerns, perhaps they can reach common conclusions,” writes Gilles Stockton in his new book, Feeding a Divided ...

For the past half century, the Christian Right has been mastering the tools of electoral democracy in order to erode and end it. The methods and the players have evolved over time, but the goal of ...

In January 2023, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine released a 228-page report, underscoring the urgent need to increase native seed supplies to restore damaged ecosystems in ...

In 2011, Dakota artist Mona Smith set out to change that with the Bdote Memory Map, which includes a spoken glossary of Dakota terms, resources for educators and videos of Dakota people sharing their ...

Kitaŋh! Wetu ahi. (Finally! Spring has arrived.) Spring is making its way here in Mni Sota Makoce (the Land of Cloudy Waters), and Waziya (Old Man Winter) is finally heading north. It is during this ...