North Dakota
Bakken oil, agriculture, military, and the boom-and-bust cycle of energy extraction.
Coverage forthcoming.
In Great Plains
Kansas
Agriculture, aviation manufacturing, education funding, and the politics of the prairie.
Nebraska
Unicameral legislature, feedlots, Offutt Air Force Base, and plains governance.
South Dakota
Tourism, tribal relations, agriculture, and the state that carved presidents into mountains.
North Dakota
Bakken oil, agriculture, military, and the boom-and-bust cycle of energy extraction.
Oklahoma
Energy industry, tribal sovereignty, weather, and the state where the wind comes sweeping down the plain.
Montana
Public lands, mining, ranching, and the politics of the Last Best Place.
Wyoming
Coal, wind, ranching, Yellowstone, and the least populous state's outsized federal lands.
Agriculture Policy
Farm bills, crop insurance, commodity programs, and the federal architecture of plains agriculture.
Energy
Oil, wind, ethanol, pipelines, and the Great Plains' role as America's energy corridor.
Rural Development
Population loss, broadband, healthcare access, and the fight to sustain rural communities.