Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder (COPD) is a respiratory disease affecting over 14 million Americans. In recent years, the American Lung Association has asserted that there are likely many more ...

Mara Casey Tieken's book, *Educated Out*, challenges the notion that rural students lack college aspirations, particularly ...

Black people living in rural areas of North Carolina were found to have better mental health than white people despite their exposure to various forms of racism and discrimination. This paradoxical ...

Last week, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz proposed a bizarre remedy to rural America’s mental health crisis. “Sixty million Americans live in rural parts of ...

The ongoing economic fallout from COVID-19 — and its disproportional impact on people of color — is being felt not just in big cities but also in rural areas of persistent poverty across the United ...

Lost Touch: Roosevelt greets Depression-era farmers whose votes would anchor the New Deal coalition for 50 years. Credit: Associated Press With the onset of the Great Depression, the United States ...

Rural activists are ready to take their place and play their part in the coalitions that are forming. Loretta Jasper, left, and Jo Schwartz, wave to a passing vehicle on Buckeye Avenue in downtown ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to professor Dave Peters, an economist and sociologist with Iowa State University's extension service, about the pain rural Americans are feeling because of inflation.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. I grew up in a rural part of western Washington and currently live in ...

After decades of alienating working-class and rural voters from the Democratic party, it’s time the left bridges the divide It was a warm morning in rural Virginia. I was cutting into a pile of downed ...

Readers discuss a column by Paul Krugman about the hardships faced by white rural Americans. To the Editor: Re “The Mystery of White Rural Rage,” by Paul Krugman (column, Feb. 27): In 2006 I rode my ...

On June 3, James Hensley, a 21-year-old from Corbin, Kentucky, joined a small group of local queer activists downtown for what was supposed to be a celebration of Pride. Corbin, a small mountain town ...