Co-published with The New Yorker. Renewed attention to antitrust has been focussed on Big Tech, but concentration in agriculture may be an underlying source of rural America’s pro-Trump …

Co-published with 100 Days in Appalachia. Communities across Appalachia, especially in Tennessee, are struggling to maintain hospital care.

Co-published with 100 Days in Appalachia. With any hospital merger or acquisition, there’s a fear that those most in need, those in the most remote communities, will be …

Co-published with 100 Days in Appalachia. Rural communities throughout America are struggling with the question of how to continue to provide hospital care.

Co-published with The Guardian. A collapse in the number of dairy farmers in states such as Minnesota is destroying livelihoods and hollowing out rural life.

Co-published with Slate. What happens in a Whitopia as a red Georgia turns blue?

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 …

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.

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 …

Co-published with Sojourners. The subtly subversive movement has been going strong for over 85 years.

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 …

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 …