On a Thursday afternoon in early April, two young women addressed the school board in East Tennessee’s rural McMinn County. Both were raised in families ...

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This post is from our data newsletter, the Rural Index, headed by Sarah Melotte, the Daily Yonder’s data reporter. Subscribe to get a ...

This story was originally published by the Maine Monitor. Tractors stand at the ready along rolling wild blueberry barrens ...

I left Mississippi believing opportunity waited elsewhere. After college, military service, and traveling the world, I never expected to return. But ...

This story was originally published by Journalism Lab. Visitors to the woods surrounding China Hat Road may recognize Zachary "Zack" Polton's yellow ...

The rolling rural Ozarks offers scenic beauty and a sense of solitude – great things, I bet most would agree, except when transportation is an ...

I spent over seven hours in the car driving one way to my most recent doctor’s appointment. For many Americans, this may be ...

This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a ...

When Jill Baker’s email pinged late on a Wednesday night in early April, she had no idea that her role as the director for Humanities Montana was about to ...

This story was originally published by Journalism Lab. Visitors to the woods surrounding China Hat Road may recognize Zachary “Zack” Polton’s yellow school bus through the trees that line the road to ...

Recent political events have sparked renewed discussion around American democracy and what it means to be an “American.” The mainstream media and academia ...