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  • Economy & Work
    Best Rural Reporting from 'In These Times'
    January 26, 2021
    | In These Times

    A roundup of articles about white supremacy, racial justice, country music, indigenous activism, farm policy, and more.

  • Democracy & Government
    How Decades of Corporate-Friendly Farm Policies Wrecked Rural America
    November 9, 2020
    | Jim Goodman
    And Paved the Way for Trump
  • Activism
    Cleaning Up America's 'Dirty Secret' in the Black Belt
    September 5, 2017
    | Gail Ablow
    In rural Alabama, Catherine Coleman Flowers took on a problem no one was touching: environmental injustice.
  • Activism
    The Poor Aren't Involved in Politics. Can Activists Change That?
    June 22, 2017
    | John Light
    Organizers hope to amplify the voices of those who will be hit hardest by Trump's policies.
  • Environment
    Why Rural Communities Need to Talk About Climate Change
    May 19, 2016
    | Anna Claussen
    Educating rural communities can help them prevent permanent damage to the environment.
  • Inequality
    'Rich Hill' and a Vanishing American Dream
    August 25, 2014 | Updated January 6, 2015
    | Stephen Pimpare
    Watch this award-winning documentary about three teenaged boys growing up in a small town in Missouri that sheds light on rural, white poverty on PBS Video.
  • Rural Conservatives' Battle Cry: Secession!
    September 12, 2013
    | Joshua Holland
    Media say it's symptomatic of a growing rural-urban divide, but that's not the whole story.
  • The End of the (Wire)Line
    July 23, 2013
    | Tom Casciato and Laura Macomber, Okapi Productions
    Discover why companies like AT&T want to unplug the way roughly 19 million Americans still communicate with the rest of the world.
  • Congress Turns Its Back on Rural America
    June 13, 2013
    | Greg Kaufmann
    Greg Kaufmann checks in on a small Kansas town that lost its only Head Start program, illustrating how sequester cuts often hit rural areas hardest.


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