Last September, Rev. Matthew Trewhella, pastor of Mercy Seat Christian Church in Hartland, Wisconsin, a town of 10,000 in Waukesha County, gave a sermon titled “Charlie Kirk, TPUSA, and Homosex: A ...

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 ...

I first came across Austin Frerick in The American Conservative in 2019. His story, “To Revive Rural America, We Must Fix Our Broken Food System,” with its plain-spoken, factual description of how Big ...

“Tear it Down!” Let us hope that Democrats and Republican officials who can locate their spines, along with historians, preservationists, and ordinary patriotic citizens, will tell our autocratic ...

International food aid—the food grown by American row crop farmers—has been a hallmark of United States foreign policy since the beginning of the Cold War. Its untimely end by the Trump administration ...

“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 ...

Thomas Tweed’s transformative new history, Religion in the Lands That Became America: A New History (Yale University Press), begins and ends in the same place: a farm outside of Waco, Texas, where in ...

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 ...

Dustin Watson looks over the pastures and woodlands he grew up on. Behind him is the farmhouse his great-grandfather built, not far from the chicken coops and tractor sheds his grandfather raised ...

It’s not likely that the word “overproduction” will feature much in this year’s farm bill debate. But in many ways, the status quo of overproducing corn, soybeans, wheat, rice, cotton and a handful of ...

This is the first article in a series of stories and interviews in which we ask rural organizers, elected office holders and political strategists what lessons are to be learned from the 2024 General ...