100 Days in Appalachia

‘Small Country Roads Everywhere’: DeFlock Spreads its Wings in Appalachia as Resistance to Surveillance Mounts

Three months ago, Connor Beske started a Facebook group. Its profile icon is a blue-toned illustration of bird of prey with a ...
100 Days in Appalachia

100 Days in Appalachia

DeFlock groups are multiplying and increasingly talking to each other, comparing notes about what resisting mass surveillance from small towns could mean — and how to harness a newfound wave of civic ...
100 Days in Appalachia

100 Days in Appalachia

Appalachia, the same region that fueled the United States’ industrialization, is building out its own unique relationship to the infrastructure of the globalizing 21st century. 100 Days in Appalachia ...
100 Days in Appalachia

100 Days in Appalachia

Local officials say a new power plant proposal is clearly meant to support data centers. And these promises of economic development are all too familiar in a region where extractive industries have ...
100 Days in Appalachia

Five Years After It Became a National Park, There’s a Growing Divide In West Virginia’s New River Gorge

The New River Gorge is a jagged area in the middle of Southern West Virginia’s coalfields. Shaped by one of the oldest rivers in the world, whitewater rapids roll under its high petrified sandstone ...
100 Days in Appalachia

What is the New Apostolic Reformation? How a Religio-Political Movement is Affecting U.S. and Appalachian Politics

Apostles and prophets. Spiritual warfare. Dominionism and the New Apostolic Reformation. You might come across these terms if you follow politics these days. Here’s some context and clarity about the ...