Eric Ting reports for the San Francisco Chronicle under the headline,  ' This state is under tyranny': Scenes from California's...

Hannah Allam writes for the Washington Post under the headline, " Missing people, buried bones at center of Oklahoma mystery ." T...

David Leonhardt's " Democracy Challenged:  Twin Threats to Governing Ideals Put America in Uncharted Territory " appeared on t...

Jason DeParle reported earlier this week  for the New York Times on recent drops in child poverty, due largely to the government safety net...

Sam Gringlas reports from Georgia for NPR, " Georgia's rural Black voters helped propel Democrats before. Will they do it again ?...

That's the title of a policy brief by Kenneth Johnson, from the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire .  Her...

The New York Times reports today on New York City residents who fled to the country during the pandemic and are now mostly returning to the ...

The Rural Blog reports in some detail  here , so it's a good place to start. And here's a story from Ski-Hi News in Grand County, C...

It's been interesting to see how journalists --especially national journalists --have described what happened yesterday with the Amtrak ...

I've been trawling around my hometown newspaper, The Newton County Times , for pandemic coverage and saw this story about the 2020 Censu...

This line from a story in the New York Times today triggered a lot of questions about how FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) works...

A few weeks ago, Pete Buttigieg appeared before the Senate for hearings on his nomination to be the Biden administration's Secretary of ...

It’s a common sentiment amongst many news articles I’ve read this week that getting rural Americans vaccinated is much harder than getting t...

That is, compared to any other state. West Virginia was a close second. North Dakota and Oklahoma ran  third at about 65% each.  See more he...

Here's the story from the Elko, Nevada newspaper .  Guess Trump is taking the rural NV vote for granted and aiming for more bang for his...

 Here it is: This cartoon focuses--not inappropriately--on relative population size to suggest it'll be easier for rural folks to vote i...

But I saw this piece from Niskanen Center re-upped on Twitter, with a focus on population density as determinative of political leanings.  ...

That's the question  the Sacramento Bee  story asked two years ago here , and today the California Supreme Court finally made a decision...

Just two stories on this topic in the past several days are one out of Wyoming (which is nearly rural in its entirety) and one out of New Yo...

Note that the map here  from the New York Times on May 16 treats "low population density" and "no cases reported" the sa...