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Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with Republican vice presidential candidate, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) on the second day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 16, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Donald Trump and the "pride paradox"

Chauncey DeVega
Republican vice-presidential nominee J.D. Vance speaks during a fundraising event at Discovery World on July 17, 2024, on the third day of the Republican National Convention in downtown Milwaukee, Wis. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The "two different JD Vances"

Chauncey DeVega
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Dayton International Airport on November 7, 2022 in Vandalia, Ohio. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Rural America must break free of MAGA

Chauncey DeVega
Loretta Lynn performing during the 2011 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival on June 11, 2011 in Manchester, Tennessee. (Erika Goldring/WireImage/Getty Images)

Loretta Lynn helped me love home

Alison Stine
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Sun Shining Through Oak Tree Branches (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/bruev)

Best of 2021: Sex in trees

Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood
Montana democratic Governor Steve Bullock campaigns for the senate at a drive in rally on October 3, 2020 in Livingston, Montana. (William Campbell/Getty Images)

Dem sounds alarm on party's rural "doom"

Alex Henderson - Alternet
Sun Shining Through Oak Tree Branches (Getty Images/bruev)

Sex in trees

Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood
(Getty/IP Galanternik D.U.)

Welcome to suburbia

Christopher Boone - The Conversation
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A still from "Landline" (Matt Houghton)

LGBT farmers call the "Landline"

Tom Roston
People are removed as they protest proposed cuts to Medicaid (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Medicaid: Rural America's savior

Shefali Luthra - KFF Health News
In this June 30, 2016 photo, street lamps light up as night approaches over Rocky Ford, Colo., in Otero County, a rural and increasingly impoverished part of southern Colorado. Rural areas have been especially slow to recover from the Great Recession that began in 2008: The most recent study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture found that, as of 2014, rural areas still had not regained all the jobs lost in the recession while metropolitan areas had. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) (AP)

Factory farming a disaster for rural US

Elizabeth Enochs - Alternet
Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority workers try to reach valves that control the flow of water in and out of Highland Park Reservoir No. 1 outside the membrane filtration plant in Highland Park neighborhood of Pittsburgh on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017. Tests by the state Department of Environmental Protection showed low levels of chlorine in water at a facility that draws water from the city’s Highland Park reservoirs. (Rebecca Droke/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)

Millions drank unsafe water

Agnel Philip, Elizabeth Sims, Jordan Houston, Rachel Konieczny
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