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 ...

I knew the envelope’s postmark, too: Vanleer, Tennessee—a place with green hills and old tobacco barns and fences that no longer mark much, a place my third graders used to struggle to find on a map, ...

On a sunny day in late April, Barbara Damrosch, 83, stepped into boots and out the back door into the stone courtyard of her home in Brooksville, Maine. Thyme crept over the tidy rock pathways and ...

As Americans in communities across the nation prepare to celebrate No Kings Day, Barn Raiser is honored to share the following essay by novelist Robert Jackson Bennett. It was originally published in ...

“Nah, he wouldn’t really do that.” I’ve lived in the Upper Delaware Valley for five years, first in Pike County, Pennsylvania, and now in Sullivan County, New York. My county went 58% for Trump last ...

This story was originally published by Minnesota Women’s Press. “Y our mother’s art is so direct, so full of hard lessons and stories, and so full of love. That’s what amazes me—your writing is the ...

On June 11, after decades of prohibiting farmers from repairing their own equipment, a federal court denied John Deere’s motion to throw out the Federal Trade Commission’s right-to-repair antitrust ...

In recent years, public schools have been under attack from from outside groups that profess “parents’ rights” and advocate for “school choice.” The leaders of this anti-public school movement has ...

PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals,” are used by industry and are found in consumer products such as nonstick cookware. They can cause cancer, birth defects, liver problems, damage to the immune ...