Right now, Congress is working on a fast-track bill that would make historic cuts to basic needs programs in order to finance another round of tax breaks for the wealthy and big corporations. The ...

International food aid—the food grown by American row crop farmers—has been a hallmark of United States foreign policy since the beginning of the Cold War. Its untimely end by the Trump administration ...

The idea for this letter came about when Farm Aid and the National Young Farmers Coalition began discussing the difficult situations many young farmers face today. This led to David’s appearance in ...

Monsignor George Higgins was a fixture of American Catholicism in the mid- 20th century. He taught at Catholic University and served on the staff of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. He had a ...

This is a tale about Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth, whose story has become part of the backstory of the politics and culture of our time. Hegseth is not only a proponent of Christian ...

The following is an excerpt from Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America by Sharon Udasin and Rachel Frazin, published by Island Press. You can purchase a copy here. Brenda ...

Rural communities depend on strong connections between neighbors, local businesses, nonprofits and local government. Public schools are the glue that holds these connections together. As president of ...

I am a small, organic vegetable farmer in southern Maine, in the town of Topsham, where I grew up. For the past 15 years, our farm has worked with U.S. Department of Agriculture to help build ...

Visit a dairy farm anywhere in the country and odds are decent you’ll overhear conversations in Spanish. Like other farmers in the United States, dairy farmers rely on immigrant laborers from Mexico ...

The preamble for the next war over water is here. Aggressive corporations are coming after the few remaining pristine places on Mother Earth—mainly on the land of Indigenous people. Nowadays, it’s not ...