Thirty-five artists across four states are participating in a rural-urban solidarity initiative. One project in Minnesota connected elementary school students from St. James and Minneapolis. (Photo by ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. Maybe there is a rural-urban divide. Or maybe it’s a myth. Regardless, I believe ...

An aerial drone photo over the fields and dirt road lanes in the fields during the golden light of the morning. Rural residents in the U.S. face much greater challenges in accessing healthcare than ...

In the 1960s and 1970s, people who lived in rural America fared a little better than their urban counterparts. The rate of deaths from all causes was a tad lower outside of metropolitan areas. In the ...

Blue America is a nation with an ever-shrinking countryside. In 2008, Barack Obama won 875 U.S. counties; in 2020, Joe Biden won 527, thanks largely to the rightward drift of rural jurisdictions. The ...