Ronald Reagan convinced Republican voters that the "welfare queen" was ripping them off. Now they are going to pay the price.

Rousseau was a repeat entrant in the prestigious Dijon Prize contests and actually won the coveted award a second time in 1754 for his “Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men.” In ...

Yet even as they disparaged the region and its people—who were really no different from poor folks in other parts of the country—missionaries retained a sense of optimism about what a reformed ...

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But the wacky, wadical white wing of the Wepublican Party wants to change all that because they can’t stand seeing people ...

As Trump proposes cutting Appalachian Regional Commission, Central Appalachia's coalfields and rural counties remain mired in ...

The labor minister in economically depressed Cuba resigned Tuesday amid an uproar over her claim that people rummaging ...

A recent study by the Appalachian Regional Commission is comparing rural Appalachia to the rest of rural America.

For the past nine years, I have been conducting research on rural health and poverty in Appalachia. It’s a complex region often painted in broad brushstrokes that miss the geographic ...

The floods have highlighted the resilience of local people to work together for collective survival in rural Appalachia. But they have also exposed the deep vulnerability of communities, many of ...

But Vance’s vision of Appalachia appears to be more about promoting his agenda, his political ascendancy, than about helping the people he claims to represent.

Yet even as they disparaged the region and its people—who were really no different from poor folks in other parts of the country—missionaries retained a sense of optimism about what a reformed ...