Tag: Rural America
The monster festival: A pilgrimage to small town America
Joseph P. Laycock, Texas State University
One of my hobbies is dragging my patient wife to small towns to study beliefs and practices related to...
Rural Americans’ struggles against factory farm pollution find traction in court
Sacoby Wilson, University of Maryland
As U.S. livestock farming becomes more industrial, it is changing rural life. Many people now live near Concentrated Animal Feeding...
Want to understand gun owners? Watch their videos
Connie Hassett-Walker, Kean University
It was an ordinary day in 2011, when I found myself watching a YouTube video of a gun owner making a...
A pair of decades-old policies may change the way rural America...
Christopher Ali, University of Virginia
While Americans were distracted by the very important public debates around an open internet and the proliferation of fake news...
The unique case for rural charter schools
Karen Eppley, Pennsylvania State University
The recent appointment of Betsy DeVos as secretary of education has brought rural schools into the national conversation...
Study: 60 percent of rural millennials lack access to a political...
Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, Tufts University and Felicia Sullivan, Tufts University
Like older voters, young ones were divided by the 2016 presidential election.
A...
Six charts that illustrate the divide between rural and urban America
Brian Thiede, Pennsylvania State University; Lillie Greiman, The University of Montana; Stephan Weiler, Colorado State University; Steven C. Beda, University of Oregon, and Tessa...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
