Mikey Weinstein didn’t want to fight the Pentagon. But he saw no other choice. As the founder and president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), Weinstein’s battles—in the courts and ...

A version of this story first appeared in The Cocklebur. Senate Republican leaders spent their weekend cutting deals, buying votes and otherwise using legislative budget tricks to get their own GOP ...

At 7 a.m. on a warm Sunday morning last fall in Alpena, Michigan, we arrived at the shores of Thunder Bay on Lake Huron to meet Jonathan Durtka, who was already on his boat at the dock, organizing his ...

The election results reported in this story were updated on December 4, 2024, when the last House race, in California’s 13th Congressional District, was called. Donald Trump was elected the nation’s ...

Federal charges ordinarily cover matters of national reach: immigration, voting rights, racketeering and the like. Not in Indian Country. Tribal citizens may find themselves in federal court for a ...

Kristina Reser-Jaynes can still recall a time when she’d never heard of school vouchers. Then, a few years ago, the Kickapoo school district in Southwestern Wisconsin that her daughters attend ...

Cairo’s situation may be unique, but it’s not unusual in losing its grocery store. Limited or no access to food tends to be thought of as an urban phenomenon, but it affects rural communities just as ...

Last year, the Biden administration announced major climate goals: achieving a carbon pollution-free power sector by 2035 and a net zero emissions economy by no later than 2050. Twenty-nine states and ...

In the book’s introduction, Stockton notes that according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2019, “209,007 farms produced 78.7% of commodity sales. The other 21.7% is shared by 1,820,192 small ...

DNA showed that the mountain lion killed in Chicago was the same animal that had been spotted over the past four months in nine locations throughout northern Illinois and Wisconsin. DNA also proved ...

It’s been eight years since the water protectors were cleared off the banks of the Cannonball and Missouri Rivers. It was a bitter ending to a battle to protect the water at Standing Rock, and for ...

In 2011, Dakota artist Mona Smith set out to change that with the Bdote Memory Map, which includes a spoken glossary of Dakota terms, resources for educators and videos of Dakota people sharing their ...