Provincial Pretenders
The only thing more American than living and working on a farm is pretending you do.
Agathe Dorra is a PhD researcher in political aesthetics at King’s College London
The only thing more American than living and working on a farm is pretending you do.
The rural divide is deep and, in many cases, based on real abandonment by liberal technocrats. More than just new policies, Democrats need a new approach to rural voters.
Yellowstone sells a fantasy of rural America — and conservatism — no different from any other prime-time soap opera.
Some of the most frightening beasts of American folklore may be hiding out in your neck of the woods.
In today’s Europe, the exploitation of migrant workers puts food on the table.
Since the 1960s, Israel has planted millions of trees across the Naqab desert and the West Bank. The afforestation effort greenwashes ethnic cleansing — and literally covers up the evidence.
Brazil’s impoverished, informal urban neighborhoods are the result of long-term rural neglect.
Israel has laid waste to Palestinian agriculture for decades. It’s only gotten worse since the war started.
The success of the “nuclear sponge” strategy means the destruction of the Great Plains.
Contrary to what you’ve heard, progressives actually can reach rural voters.
Among Jane McAlevey’s many audacious projects in the labor movement, her organizer training program, Organizing for Power, is one of her most innovative. Reaching tens of thousands of workers worldwide, her ideas and commitment will live on through it.
Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t work the land on his Hawaii ranch, but he and other wealthy landowners still benefit from huge agricultural tax breaks.
Since 2008, Wall Street has made a pretty penny exacerbating the housing crisis.
The Scottish National Party suffered a heavy defeat in last week’s Westminster election. The result leaves Scotland trapped for now inside a British state whose deep-seated problems the new Labour government will be unable to address.
The French election was meant to bring victory for Marine Le Pen’s far right. But the New Popular Front rallied around a left-wing program for social change — allowing it to become the biggest force in the new National Assembly.