In rural Appalachia, abortion pill offers reproductive choice and privacy − but police may see a crime

A 35-year-old Kentucky woman was arrested in late 2025, accused of taking abortion pills that she ordered online. The ...
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Fanon’s Rainbow: The Lithium Under Appalachia

Appalachia has been here before. Not the lithium part, but the part where something valuable gets discovered underneath ...

Veto threat nixes attempt to revive ‘most effective’ anti-child poverty tax credit

A pair of bills looking to bridge support for low-income families by closing some corporate tax cuts died Monday afternoon ...
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Dolly Parton Young During Her Appalachia Childhood

Before she was the Queen of Country Music and a superstar, Dolly Parton was living a humble life in Appalachia. Born in Locust Ridge, Tennessee in 1946, Parton lived in a two-room log cabin with no ...

Orthodox crosses soar in the wilds of West Virginia | Terry Mattingly

A new Russian Orthodox monastery church in West Virginia blends traditional Slavic design with Appalachian architecture. The ...
Morehead State University

Eagles give back through Alternative Spring Break Experience

While many college students spend spring break traveling or relaxing, a group of students chose a different path—dedicating ...
The New Yorker

The Grandmothers Who Become Mothers Again

In “Mawmaw,” the photographer Anthony Wilson pays tribute to West Virginia women who, after one tragedy or another, care for ...

Nearly 1M Ohioans still can’t access the internet; a new bipartisan bill could change that

Sen. Jon Husted's new bill would study whether satellites can circumvent the topographical challenges that have kept ...
The Washington Post

My father led the War on Poverty. Here’s what he learned.

President Lyndon Johnson with Sargent Shriver, left, who led the anti-poverty program, and Bernard Boutin, deputy director of the program, in the White House on Oct. 5, 1965. (Anonymous/AP) Garrett ...