On February 13, 2026, the Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026 , an updated version of the Farm Bill, was introduced in the House o...

American Samoa Post Office (2021) - Pago Pago, AS; Credit: Talanei News  Without a post office in one’s community, one must resort to trave...

California residents have become accustomed to historically large wildfires occurring at an astonishing pace, with  eight of the ten  larges...

In an effort to combat rural depopulation , small communities across the United States are thinking of inventive ways to encourage relocatio...

The blog’s most recent post  discussed the Rural Health Transformation Program . Passed as part of Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” this “r...

Breakneck:  China's Quest to Engineer the Future   by technology analyst Dan Wang was published last month by W.W. Norton.  The promotio...

Alex Travelli and Hari Kumar report from Devanahalli, India in yesterday's New York Times on the pending opening of an iPhone factory ...

The Trump administration's efforts to reduce the size of government now include reducing investment in rural America. The administration...

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, migration to rural areas has substantially increased. From 2019 to 2023, large urban areas like N...

Is the American Dream ("the Dream") dead? The Dream  posits that success results from work and sacrifice rather than the circumsta...

Colorado in 2012, via state-wide referendum, voted to legalize recreational-use marijuana, becoming (alongside Washington) one the first sta...