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A Good Dentist Is Hard To Find In Rural America By Alison Kodjak (NPR)
Alaska's Trumpian Governor Just Threatened the Health of the Entire State By Sam Davenport (VICE)
A Small Indiana County Sends More People to Prison Than San Francisco and Durham, N.C., Combined. Why? By Josh Keller and Adam Pearce (The New York Times)
An Alt-Right Makeover Shrouds the Swastikas By Serge F. Kovaleski, Julie Turkewitz, Joseph Goldstein and Dan Barry (The New York Times)
An Epidemic Is Killing Thousands Of Coal Miners. Regulators Could Have Stopped It By Howard Berkes, Huo Jingnan, and Robert Benincasa (NPR)
A rural community loses its hospital — a standalone ER fills the gap By Sam Whitehead (Marketplace)
As American as Apple Pie? The Rural Vote’s Disproportionate Slice of Power By Emily Badger (The New York Times)
Bridging The Digital Divide In Texas’ Wide-Open Spaces (Science Friday)
California Communities Environmental Health Screening Tool
Can West Virginia’s pipeline jobs keep youth in the state? By Student Reporting Labs (PBS NewsHour)
Capturing America at Its Plainest By Andrew Moore (The New York Times)
Closure Of Private Prison Forces Texas County To Plug Financial Gap By John Burnett (NPR)
Coal’s Deadly Dust (PBS Frontline)
Colorado City Eyes Solution To Local News Desert: Libraries By Rae Ellen Bichell (NPR)
Digging Deep Into Local News, A Small Newspaper In Rural Oregon Is Thriving By Tom Goldman (NPR)
11 Years Old, a Mom, and Pushed to Marry Her Rapist in Florida By Nicholas Kristof (The New York Times)
Evangelical Writer Kisses An Old Idea Goodbye By Sarah McCammon (NPR)
Examining Suicide In Amador County By Beth Ruyak (Capital Public Radio)
Feminism and Lynn’s Banned Song, “The Pill” (American Masters - PBS)
50 Years Into the War on Poverty, Hardship Hits Back By Trip Gabriel (The New York Times)
Five-Year-Olds Work Farm Machinery, and Injuries Follow By Jack Healy (The New York Times)
For Many Navajos, Getting Hooked Up To The Power Grid Can Be Life-Changing By Laurel Morales (NPR)
For Mill Town's Youth, 'It Can't Get Any Worse' By Tovia Smith (NPR)
GM closures: Oshawa needs more than ‘thoughts and prayers’ By Steven High (The Conversation)
Green Acres, the Place to Be By Patricia Leigh Brown (The New York Times)
Hepatitis C Cases In Rural Wisconsin Underscore Drug Link By Scott Hensley (NPR)
Heroine's Small-Town Toll, and a Mother's Pain By Deborah Sontag (The New York Times)
Hospitals In Rural Areas Are Closing Their Maternity Units By Michelle Andrews (NPR)
How America’s food giants swallowed the family farms By Chris McGreal (The Guardian)
How Redding Became an Unlikely Epicenter of Modern Christian Culture By Vanessa Rancaño (KQED)
How One Hospital Entices Doctors To Work In Rural America By Peggy Lowe (NPR)
How schools are forced to close as rural populations dwindle By Jeffrey Brown (PBS NewsHour)
How the Swedes are tackling loneliness By Benoit Derrier (BBC)
How To Become A Farmer In California? Get A Mentor By Julia Mitric (Capitol Public Radio)
How Wyoming manages to keep its rural schools open By Student Reporting Labs (PBS Newshour)
‘I’m gonna lose everything’ By Annie Gowen (The Washington Post)
Immigrants, Migrants Caught In Middle Of Rural Lawyer Shortage By Chad Davis and St. Louis Public Radio (Harvest Public Radio)
In Rural America, Homeless Population May Be Bigger Than You Think By Miles Bryan (NPR)
Installing Free Wi-Fi To Help Count Rural Communities Of Color In 2020 Census By Hansi Lo Wang (NPR)
Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues
Is Gun Control a City vs. Country Debate? By Jennifer Carlson (The Society Pages)
'It's The Stone Age Of Fossil Fuels': Coal Bankruptcy Tests Wyoming Town By Cooper McKim (NPR)
Jason Isbell’s ‘Nashville Sound’ conjures rural Americans and their concerns (PBS NewsHour)
Karen Kinsell: A brief but spectacular take on being a rural area’s only doctor (PBS NewsHour)
Kentucky's New Governor Could Roll Back Medicaid, Even As State Benefits By Ashley Lopez (NPR)
Laid off and owed pay: the Kentucky miners blocking coal trains By Michael Sainato (The Guardian)
Lawless By Kyle Hopkins (Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica)
Life Along the 100th Meridian (The New York Times)
Life and Health in Rural America (Special Series from NPR)
Life in One of the Whitest Towns in America By Logan Jaffe and ProPublica Illinois (The Atlantic)
Norway’s First-Ever Rural Pride Parade -Video by Julie Lunde Lillesæter and Julia Dahr (The Atlantic)
1 in 4 rural hospitals is vulnerable to closure, a new report finds By Dylan Scott (Vox)
Our Towns: On the Road, in the Air By James Fallows (The Atlantic)
'Physically And Mentally Draining': The Economic Hardships U.S. Dairy Farmers Face By Scott Simon (NPR)
Poll: Many Rural Americans Struggle With Financial Insecurity, Access To Health Care By Joe Neel and Patti Neighmond (NPR)
Rape Culture in the Alaskan Wilderness By Sara Bernard (The Atlantic)
Real Rural: Photographs and Interviews By Lisa M. Hamilton
Resisting the resistance: anti-liberal rage brews in California's right wing By Sam Levin (The Guardian)
Rich Hill Film (An examination of challenges, hopes and dreams of the young residents of a rural American town)
Rural America Faces A Crisis In 'Adequate Housing' By Kirk Siegler (NPR)
Rural Americans Are Worried About Addiction And Jobs, But Remain Optimistic By Joe Neel and Alison Kodjak (NPR)
Rural communities in “Graying America” see boost in business By Kristin Schwab (Marketplace)
Rural Health: Financial Insecurity Plagues Many Who Live With Disability By Selena Simmons-Duffin (NPR)
Rural hospitals are closing — what now? By NBC News (NBC)
Rural Medical Camp Tackles Health Care Gaps By Howard Berkes (NPR)
Rural Oregon's Lost Prosperity Gives Standoff a Distressed Backdrop By Kirk Johnson (The New York Times)
Rural Suicide: One California County’s Fight To Save Lives By Sammy Caiola (Capital Public Radio)
Sarah's Uncertain Path By Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo (The New York Times)
Shortage Of Maternal Healthcare Creates Crises In Parts Of California (CapRadio)
State Loan Repayment Help Not Enough to Remedy California Doctor Shortages By Pauline Bartolone (Capital Public Radio)
Study looks at where the IRS audits more and less By Kai Ryssdal (Marketplace)
Study Shatters Preconceived Notions About Urban Vs. Rural Obesity By Susan Brink (NPR)
Suicide Prevention Toolkit for Rural Primary Care (Suicide Prevention Resource Center)
Teaching Children How to Reverse an Overdose By Dan Levin (The New York Times)
Texas Strives To Lure Mental Health Providers To Rural Counties By Lauren Silverman (NPR)
The Big—and Seemingly Impossible—Jobs of Small-Town Principals By Caroline Preston (Pacific Standard)
The ‘Boys’ in the Bunkhouse By Dan Barry (The New York Times)
The Cancer Capital of America By Suzanne Zuppello (The Outline)
The County: where deputies dole out rough justice By Jon Swaine and Oliver Laughland (A Five-Part Series about Kern County, CA - From The Guardian)
The Christian Withdrawal Experiment By Emma Green (The Atlantic)
The Dollar Store Backlash Has Begun By Tanvi Misra (CityLab)
The end of the line. Photo essay By Latoya Ruby Frazier Text By Dan Kaufman (The New York Times)
The everything town in the middle of nowhere By Josh Dzieza (The Verge)
The Geography of Brain Drain in America By Richard Florida (City Lab)
The Great Plains Oil Rush (A series from NPR)
The Life of an American Boy at 17 By Jennifer Percy (Esquire)
The one-euro homes of Sicily By Andrea Savorani Neri (BBC)
The Only Dental Relief for many in this West Virginia County is Extraction By Simon Ostrovsky (PBS Newshour)
The New Heroin Epidemic By Olga Khazan (The Atlantic)
There’s an Amazingly Simple, Beautiful Way to Fix Midwestern Farmlands By Tom Philpott (Mother Jones)
‘There’s something terribly wrong’: Americans are dying young at alarming rates By Joel Achenbach (The Washington Post)
The Struggle to Mend America’s Rural Roads By Patricia Cohen (The New York Times)
There were nearly a million black farmers in 1920. Why have they disappeared? By Summer Sewell (The Guardian)
The Rural Blog
The Struggle To Hire And Keep Doctors In Rural Areas Means Patients Go Without Care By Kirk Siegler (NPR)
The U.S. Suicide Rate Is at Its Highest in a Half-Century By Jared Keller (Pacific Standard)
They Were Promised Coding Jobs in Appalachia. Now They Say It Was a Fraud. By Campbell Robertson (The New York Times)
Tiny U.S. Island is Drowning. Residents Deny the Reason By Simon Worrall (National Geographic)
Unseen America: Four Stories From the Misunderstood Middle of Our Nation (Pacific Standard)
Unsheltered And Uncounted: Rural America's Hidden Homeless By Mary Meehan (NPR)
'We're not a dump' – poor Alabama towns struggle under the stench of toxic landfills By Oliver Milman (The Guardian)
What happens to rural and small-town Trump voters after Trump is gone? By J. Edwin Benton (The Conversation)
What If Your Small Town Suddenly Got Huge? By Tom Haines (The Atlantic)
What It's Like To Live In A Small, Rural, Politically Divided Town By Melissa Block (NPR)
When a deep red town’s only grocery closed, city hall opened its own store. Just don’t call it ‘socialism.’ By Antonia Noori Farzan (The Washington Post)
When a Town Runs Dry By Joris Debeij (The Atlantic)
When The Conversation Doesn't Include You: LGBTQ+ Sex Ed In A Small Town By Alyssa Edes and Ailsa Chang (NPR)
When There's No Doctor Nearby, Volunteers Help Rural Patients Manage Chronic Illness By Maggie Mullen (NPR)
Where Are the Hardest Places to Live in the U.S.? By Alan Flippen (The New York Times)
Where Government Is a Dirty Word, but Its Checks Pay the Bills By Eduardo Porter (The New York Times)
Where Is America’s Heartland? Pick Your Map By Emily Badger and Kevin Quealy (The New York Times)
Which California Communities are Most Vulnerable to Wildfires? By Talya Meyers (Direct Relief)
White House Plan To Stop HIV Faces A Tough Road In Oklahoma By Jackie Fortier (NPR)
Why Louisianans blame government, not corporations, for pollution problems By Paul Solman (PBS NewsHour)
Why millennials are moving away from large urban centers By Jeffrey Brown (PBS Newshour)
Why Poverty Is Like a Disease By Christian H. Cooper (Nautilus)
With emphasis on arts, rural communities challenge national narrative of decline By Jeffrey Brown (PBS Newshour)