Upon his return to the House Appropriations Committee after an 18-year hiatus, Rep. James E. Clyburn, D-S.C., has one central ...

Georgetown University’s Master of Science in Health and the Public Interest program hosted a public health researcher to ...

An earlier Stateline story reported that policy, poverty, rural isolation and bad habits are shortening lives in West ...

Vice President JD Vance's 2016 memoir "Hillbilly Elegy" has been criticized by many who feel it is an inaccurate portrayal of ...

One family in Bristol, Tenn., lost four daughters – all between the ages of 18 months and 14 years – during the Spanish ...

Part 1. How the fall of the coal industry changed politics in eastern Kentucky: The decline of coal jobs caused economic collapse in eastern Kentucky. In the 1970s, Pike County was one of the ...

1 FOURTH WING (Red Tower, $20.99). By Rebecca Yarros. A young woman competes to secure a spot at an elite war college for ...

Jack Schlossberg seems to share two key traits with JFK, his late grandfather and former president: shamelessness and, quite ...

He is the author of “Within Our Means,” a biweekly newsletter on ending poverty in America. The classic promise of the American dream is that no matter where you grew up, no matter how poor ...

A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: ...