Forsyth County Meets the New American Majority
Co-published with Slate. What happens in a Whitopia as a red Georgia turns blue?
Appalachia’s Hospital Closures Are a Slow-Motion Health Care Emergency
Co-published with The Nation. Unless there are drastic changes to how we apportion health care in this country, the future of rural care will be either …
Trump’s Online SNAP Program Helps Amazon and Walmart, But Leaves Rural People Behind
Co-published with In These Times. The government’s online food assistance program doesn’t include independent grocers and ignores the gaps in rural infrastructure.
Will Trump’s Broken Promises to Working-Class Voters Cost Him the Election?
Co-published with The New Yorker. The President has staged rallies across the Rust Belt, promising a manufacturing revival, but jobs lost to offshoring have increased during …
The Catholic Worker Movement Finds New Life in Rural America
Co-published with Sojourners. The subtly subversive movement has been going strong for over 85 years.
America’s Rural Radio Stations are Vanishing – And Taking the Country’s Soul With Them
Co-published with The Guardian. At a time when local newspapers are disappearing, the loss of a radio station leaves a community with another cultural and informational …
A Fierce Desire to Stay: Looking at West Virginia Through Its People’s Eyes
Co-published with The Guardian. Photographer Matt Eich and poet Doug Van Gundy went to Webster county, West Virginia, to find a place where people still celebrate …
Dollar General Throws a Lifeline to Hard-Pressed Communities. Not All Welcome It.
Co-published with The LA Times. The dollar store has thrown a lifeline of food and capital to impoverished pockets, but how much quality is in that …