It’s a frigid Saturday morning on February 22, as the historic Englert Theatre in Iowa City hosts Sen. Bernie Sanders on the second stop of “Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here,” a national tour ...

This story was originally published in Investigate Midwest. Mass terminations at the U.S. Department of Agriculture are “crippling” the agency, upending federal workers’ lives and leaving farmers and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eight years after the Standing Rock Protests, the owner of the Dakota Access Pipeline is taking Greenpeace to trial to suppress dissent.

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 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 ...

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 ...