This Meg Whitman ad frequently crops up on the Internet, and I've been struck by the rural imagery (barn in photo behind her and open me...

Read Matthew Fluharty's post on the Art of the Rural about local programming at WPAQ, Mt. Airy, North Carolina's radio station. T...

The August 18, 2010 issue of the Newton County Times features mostly news of the county fair and nothing about law and order issues except ...

That is the dichotomy Gail Collins floats--actually she calls it a "rift"--in her exchange with David Brooks in the New York Times...

In a recent post , I commented on what the film “Winter’s Bone” might reveal about white privilege. There I discussed Ree Dolly, the film...

Meraiah Foley reports in today's New York Times under the headline, "Rural Lawmakers Hold Key in Australian Election." Here...

Progressive law professors talk a lot about privilege, including white privilege. If we're white (like I am), we try to be aware of it ...

A front-page story in the New York Times a few days ago was headlined "Leery of Washington, Alaska Feasts on Its Dollars." In i...

Last month, I blogged here about Ross Douthat's column , "The Roots of White Anxiety," in which he reported on what he saw as...

Tom Zeller, Jr., reported in the New York Times last week-end from Rock Creek, West Virginia , on a struggle there between Massey Energy C...

The new UC Davis telemedecine program launched yesterday has been all over the national and California media for the past few days. Here...