Campaign Trails
Down River / Mei-Ling Hopgood
The Many, Tangled American Definitions of Socialism / Peter Slevin
Searching for the Other Midwestern Swing Voter: (Spoiler: She's Black and Lives in Detroit) / Wendy S. Walters
The Iowa Caucus: An Obituary / Courtney Crowder
In Praise of the Rookie / Heather Sinclair Shaw
Constituent Concerns
Compromised: A Group of Small-Town Environmentalists Wanted to Stop a Potentially Toxic Costco Chicken Plant. How Did They End Up Fighting Alongside: Anti-Muslim Xenophobes? / Ted Genoways
Bodies on the Line: Protest, Politics, and Power on an Appalachian Railroad / Sydney Boles
The Young Hands that Feed Us: An Estimated 524,000 Children Work Unimaginably Long Hours in America's Grueling Agricultural Fields, and It's All Perfectly Legal / Karen Coates and Valeria Fernández
In Rural Colorado, Undocumented Immigrants Defend Themselves From Encroaching Immigration Agents / Esther Honig
Dollar General Hits a Gold Mine in Rural America: In the Poorest Towns, Where Even Walmart Failed, the Little-Box Player Is Turning a Profit / Mya Frazier
Fighting to Breathe: East Chicago's Struggle for Clean Air and Soil / Brittany King
Fear: How the NRA Sells Guns in America Today / Elliott Woods
Does Standing Rock Live in Your Imagination? / Graham Lee Brewer
White Working-Class Grievance and the Black Midwesterner / Tamara Winfrey-Harris
Race Home / Fitale Wari
Solutions
Can't We All Just Get Along?: A Road Trip with My Trump-Loving Cousin / Bryan Mealer
What It Took to Finally Confront My Family about Race and Politics / Sarah Menkedick
The Coolest Parents in Johnson County, Kansas / C. J. Janovy
The Struggle of Death, Hope, and Harm Reduction in the Midwest / Zachary Siegel
Connecting in the Heartland / Paul DeMain
Where is Trump country? / Oakley Fugate
Reporting for America / Maggie Messitt
Afterword
All I Could Hear Was Sickness: Coronavirus from Inside a Prison / Lamar L. Walker.