What Makes a Place Rural?
The 2016 electoral map, with its seas of rural red, has served as the basis for a misleading and simplified shorthand for urban and rural life. These maps suggest different approaches.
Spring 2025
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Let Them Eat Tech
Tech-oriented solutions to rural poverty and underdevelopment have become hallmarks of Democratic Party policy thinking. We need an alternative that redistributes the wealth generated by the high-tech sector—and recognizes its limits as a development strategy.
Scapegoat Country
Since the 2016 election, the American press has fixated on rural communities and created a dubious new genre: the Trump Country Safari.
Rural America Reimagined
Introducing our Fall 2019 special section, “Left Paths in Rural America.”
