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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Paradoxically, they have been remarkably open about their political strategy. This is the story of one key strategic initiative and how to counter it. In March, Lance Wallnau, a leading strategist on ...

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 ...

The post holds fast by the work of the half a million hands it takes to pass a note across geographies. In Benzie County, the crow flies in concentric community circles rather than straight lines.

In the wake of the 2024 election, Barn Raiser talks to prominent Native leaders and mentors, who tell us in edited interviews how and why their communities have long endured, even in divisive and ...

In January 2023, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine released a 228-page report, underscoring the urgent need to increase native seed supplies to restore damaged ecosystems in ...

On the banks of Wounded Knee Creek, a dream died in 1890 in a brutal massacre. Today, 110 years later, on that same creek, a dream was born. That’s the work that Alex White Plume, traditional leader ...