rural america

For six week leading up to the election, a journalist from The Guardian 'explores what America's most overlooked peoples and places reveal about a nation divided'. The 2016 coverage really highlighted the groundswell of support in rural America in a way that was prescient. In some past clips...

John Boyd Jr’s grandfather Thomas, the son of a slave, slept with the deed to his farm under his mattress. He worried constantly that his land would be taken away. Twenty miles away and three generations later, Boyd lives on his own 210-acre farm, in a big white colonial house with rows of...

How to close the Democrats’ rural gap Forget Trump’s tariffs. Big Ag is driving a new farm crisis. by Claire Kelloway Courtesy of J. D. Scholten for Congress Grain of truth: In his bid to unseat Republican Congressman Steve King, J. D. Scholten crisscrossed Iowa’s Fourth District, talking to...

Two of the most remarkable trends in recent years have been the tremendous decline in violent crime and the comeback of once downtrodden and written-off cities. In his new book, Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life and the New War on Violence, New York University...

While other retailers focus on cities, the thriving discount chain is building thousands of stores aimed at lower-income shoppers in small towns Dalton Cranfield, 3 years old, and his father, David Cranfield, decide which ice cream to buy at the Evensville, Tenn., Dollar General store...

STRUGGLING AMERICANS ONCE SOUGHT GREENER PASTURES—NOW THEY’RE STUCK By Janet Adamy and Paul Overberg | Photographs by Mark Felix for The Wall Street Journal WEST BRANCH, Mich.—When she graduated from high school, Taylor Tibbetts was a bright star in this small Northern Michigan town. She won...