Shootings after football games in Leland, Heidelberg and Rolling Fork, Mississippi, last week resulted in nine deaths and at ...

Many rural American adolescents have experienced the threat of firearm violence and/or know someone killed or injured by ...

I appreciated Karen Tolkkinen’s good-faith effort to bridge the divide between rural and urban attitudes toward guns (“Shooting sounds different in rural Minnesota than in the city,” Sept. 2), ...

The political scientist Suzanne Mettler examines the roots of America’s urban-rural divide and how Democrats can win back ...

BOGALUSA, La. — Less than a mile from a century-old mill that sustained generations in this small town north of New Orleans, 19-year-old Tajdryn Forbes was shot to death near his mother’s house. She ...

CLITHERALL, MINN. - When I stepped outside to let our dog out this morning, I could hear it. From the far south pasture came the sharp percussion of guns being fired. Willa looked up, alert, staring ...

Many voters in rural America cast their ballots for Republicans in the last election because they believed their values would be defended — and their communities prioritized over wealthy elites and ...