Mary Otto / Independent Media InstituteJun 11, 2019
According to federal estimates, 49 million are living in areas with limited access to oral care. Appalachia's Lee County is one of them. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )
JOHN RABY / The Associated PressFeb 25, 2018
A system stretching from Texas to the Canadian Maritime Provinces prompted several emergency declarations even before the dangerous storms arrived. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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Staff / TruthdigJul 20, 2016
In some downtrodden American towns, the question about whether or not to vote for the Republican nominee has more to do with a "desperate survival bid" than with his racist promises. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
By Laura Gottesdiener, TomDispatchAug 26, 2015
Though the coal-mining industry in West Virginia is experiencing an unprecedented collapse that threatens to dethrone King Coal once and for all, 14-year-old Ryan Hensley and all the other children growing up in the shadow of these “blank spaces” will never see the decapitated peaks return to thickly forested mountaintops. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )
Bill Boyarsky / TruthdigOct 22, 2008
What struck me during my week in Appalachian Ohio was how different this was from the America of the McCain-Palin campaign, a divided place where the Republicans pit one part of the country against another with vicious robocalls at the dinner hour. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
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