In March 2024, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that the highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) had been identified in dairy cattle for the first time in the United States. This ...

It’s been eight years since the water protectors were cleared off the banks of the Cannonball and Missouri Rivers. It was a bitter ending to a battle to protect the water at Standing Rock, and for ...

Since President Donald Trump took office, Kyla Bennett’s phone won’t stop ringing. Email, too, is flooding her devices. Every day—and sometimes through the night—Bennett is receiving urgent messages ...

On December 17, for the first time in her life, Julie Farrar went viral. It started midday when Farrar got a text. It said that New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) was headed to the upscale Crossgates ...

The Trump administration’s top priority in 2025 is to give more lavish tax breaks to the wealthy and corporations while paying for them with cuts to everything from health care to public safety. On ...

The following is the fifth installment of “Reimagining Rural Cartographies,” a Barn Raiser series exploring innovative and nontraditional forms of mapping. It is guest-edited by Lydia Moran and funded ...