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Rural issues
Rural issues news and analysis from The Nation
February 5, 2020
I hope people driving through my town don’t see the sign and believe everyone here—and in small towns around the US—is a caricature.
January 1, 2020
Getting along is a necessity when you know you’re likely to run into each other at the only gas station in town. But it’s also a frame of mind.
November 4, 2019
And other tales from the Internet wilderness.
August 20, 2019
And it could give Democrats a fighting chance in farm country and small-town America.
March 28, 2019
Until the federal government tackles rural homelessness as a distinct issue, the problem will only get worse.
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November 13, 2018
Democrats would do well to remember a fundamental truth that this year’s elections only amplified: Real power is built from the bottom up.
October 26, 2018
Chloe Maxmin could be the first Democrat ever to win Maine House District 88 in a place deep in the state where one thing is clear: The left abandoned rural America.
October 26, 2018
Gubernatorial candidate Christine Hallquist wants to bring utility populism to Vermont.
October 25, 2018
Maxmin, 25, is running for state representative in the most rural county in the most rural state in the country—at a time when young political candidates are having their moment.
September 26, 2018
The decline of America’s rural health system and its toll on my family.
