In the mid 1980s, Thomas Eich’s grandparents, who farmed corn and soybeans, enrolled in the newly established Conservation Reserve Program, administered via the U.S. Department of Agriculture to ...

All too often, rural America is neglected by candidates at the top of the ticket. And when those candidates do the token farm stop, they often hit on a handful of tired messages about feeding the ...

“Rural people know inherently what it means to be a good neighbor,” Lynlee Thorne says over the phone from her farm in Rockingham County, Virginia. It is late August, the week following the Democratic ...

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The rural vote is vital on November 5. Even a small shift in the electoral margins of rural counties could determine the outcome of the presidential election in battleground states. Down ballot, the ...

In late 1966, residents of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, began reporting encounters with a six- or seven-foot tall creature with glowing eyes and large wings. Local papers dubbed it the “Mothman,” ...

Since 1964, I have consistently voted for third-party candidates in presidential elections—but not this time. This year, I am tossing my political purity and sanctimony out the window and voting for ...

Benton Harbor, Mich.—Abandoned houses, time-worn homes and nicely kept houses fronted by costly cars. Cracked sidewalks. Forgotten, dusty yards and grassy well-trimmed lawns. The poor and very poor ...

The Jersey Devil, or Leeds Devil, has been an important figure in American folklore for over two centuries. Encounters with the Devil have been recorded in legends as varied as one featuring the 19th ...

Wenda Sheard became a candidate for public office not because she thought she’d win, but because nobody else was willing to run. The self-described grandma, attorney, former teacher and trained ...

Native voters in swing states could help decide the 2024 election. Young voters are leading a push to make Native voices even ...