Inside the life of a rural hospital.
coal jobs
Posted inPolitical Animal
By Replacing Obama’s Clean Energy Rules, Trump Threatens Us All
The EPA is ignoring climate science and making it possible to build new coal-fired plants.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Chuck Grassley Has Lost His Patience With Trump’s Wind Lies
After learning that the president falsely claimed the noise from wind turbines causes cancer, the Iowa senator said the claim was ‘idiotic.’
Posted inPolitical Animal
Coal Country Is Dying. All Trump Has Are Lies.
Whether out of ignorance, complacency, or malice, the result is that communities continue to suffer.
Posted inBooks, Magazine, November/December 2017
What J. D. Vance Doesn’t Get About Appalachia
A new history shows how Big Coal created a culture of dependence.
Posted inPolitical Animal
Trump’s Strange Appeal to Cultural Conservatives
The people of Pound, Virginia, banned dancing but saw nothing morally depraved about Trump.
Posted inPolitical Animal
What’s Left of Trump’s Populism?
His brand of populism is increasingly being exposed as thinly-veiled white nationalism.
