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Bring on the Heat
When and where organized labor’s been on the move.
This Land Is Your Land
Country, folk, and bluegrass songs that capture the realities of rural labor.
Peace to the Huts, War on the Palaces!
For thousands of years, organized peasants have challenged rural exploitation — and even toppled governments.
Communing With Nature
After stints in Haight-Ashbury, as many as one million hippies headed for the hills. Some of their communes have persisted into the present.
Communist Cowboys
The Eastern Bloc’s “Ostern” filmmaking turned the mythology of the American Western on its head.
The People’s Propaganda
In the golden age of American political cartooning, Populist artists lampooned injustices that their contemporaries overlooked.
Issue 54: Dossier
The language of land management.
Issue 54: Letters
Send your crop report to [email protected].
When Bernie Went Back to the Land
While free love, weed, and tie-dye might not have been his bag, even the young Bernard Sanders of Brooklyn, NY, tried a life of living off the land. It didn’t work out.
Provincial Pretenders
The only thing more American than living and working on a farm is pretending you do.
Tall Tails
Some of the most frightening beasts of American folklore may be hiding out in your neck of the woods.
The Old World’s New Agriculture
In today’s Europe, the exploitation of migrant workers puts food on the table.
Favela Archipelago
Brazil’s impoverished, informal urban neighborhoods are the result of long-term rural neglect.
Outside the Green Line
Israel has laid waste to Palestinian agriculture for decades. It’s only gotten worse since the war started.
Sacrificial Lambs
The success of the “nuclear sponge” strategy means the destruction of the Great Plains.