Texas is the birthplace of populism, and it may be one of the few states big and untrammeled enough to contain a figure as lively, clever and visionary as Jim Hightower. He has been called “America’s ...

This essay was originally published by Other Words, a free editorial service of the Institute for Policy Studies, a D.C.-based nonprofit. Two hundred fifty years ago, Americans rejected monarchy. They ...

Dick Flacks has a long and storied history in the progressive movement. He was a co-author of the Port Huron Statement by the Students for a Democratic Society, the 1962 manifesto credited with ...

Even before the United States was conceived, there was dissent. During the 17th century religious dissent played a significant role in the planting and development of the English colonies. In the 18th ...

Maine, the nation’s most rural state, joined this year’s record-breaking spending in a midterm election year. The state’s highly contested June 9 primary races for governor and U.S. Senate saw nearly ...

Editors’ Note: One thing Republicans have understood for decades is the voting power of states will smaller populations. Thanks to the electoral college and the structure of the U.S. Senate, voters in ...

For generations, America’s farm policy has claimed to support a simple premise: when family farmers succeed, our country succeeds. The farm bill, originally passed as the Agricultural Adjustment Act ...

A research scientist is gaining surprising momentum in the race to helm Iowa’s Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship. Running on a platform centered around water quality, cancer and ...

Not long after I started working as a photographer and a writer, I was driving up a rural road in Oasis, California, on the west side of Coachella Valley, not far from the Salton Sea, where I saw a ...

I sunk the saved fingers of turmeric root into the tub of soil back in Winter. I waited weeks—as always. No growth. After more weeks a light dusting of white mold ghosts spots on the soil surface ...

Amid the fallout of the first and only draft of the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) post-2024 election autopsy, the report’s one critical, unassailable assessment has been ignored: The ...

Since the 2024 election, the Democratic Party has been confounded by losses in majority Latino congressional districts like California’s 22nd District, where Democrats make up 42% of the district, ...