Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. It’s easy to think cervical cancer could be 100 ...

While location isn’t the only factor influencing wages, understanding the causes of the divide can help workers in lower-paying areas find ways to boost their income. While 2025 income data hasn’t ...

Voters’ partisanship has long varied by the type of community they live in. Those in urban counties mostly align with the Democratic Party, while the reverse is true among those in rural counties. In ...

The notion of a hyper-religious rural America, one that stands in direct contrast to a modern and secularizing urban America, is pervasive. But the numbers just don’t support that stereotype. Factors ...

Blue America is a nation with an ever-shrinking countryside. In 2008, Barack Obama won 875 U.S. counties; in 2020, Joe Biden won 527, thanks largely to the rightward drift of rural jurisdictions. The ...

In just over a month, voters will finish casting their ballots for candidates for the U.S. House. In most cases, the districts in which those voters live will have changed since 2020, expanding or ...