NPR reported a few days ago on a new genre of stand-up comedians:  progressive rednecks.  These are men (and perhaps some women, though no...

A couple of newspaper stories and a documentary about rural teenage women have crossed my line of vision in recent weeks, so I decided to br...

Diamond Springs (El Dorado Co.), California, exurban Sacramento Nov. 2016 (c) Lisa R. Pruitt After a seven-week hiatus from the blog, I...

Ellen Barry reported yesterday in the New York Times on a specific type of rural-to-urban migration in India--that of young women moving t...

Joe Williams reports this week in U.S. News & World Report under the headline, " Penthouse Populist:  Why the rural poor love Don...

Two recent stories, one a feature and one breaking news, have highlighted the problem of human trafficking, sexual assault, and other ways w...

A few days ago, media were abuzz with the good news of the 2015 economic data released by the U.S. Census Bureau on September 13.  In short,...

NPR ran this story yesterday by Christopher Livesay, headlined, "'Tough Guy' Farmers Stand Up to Italian Mafia--and Win."...

Here's a story in The Guardian today, about the sole public defender, Rhonda Covington, who serves  East and West Feliciana parishes in...

The media continues to devote significant coverage to poor and working class white voters and their inclinations this election season.  Yes...

That seems to be the second headline of the NYTimes Upshot story that I wrote about here  regarding the fact that small-population countie...