When it comes to democracy, less may be more.
It is said that practice makes perfect. As the events surrounding Hurricane Maria showed, a lack of practice can make a tough situation even worse.
China is slapping retaliatory tariffs on American crops, like soy and corn, and prices have fallen sharply. President Donald Trump has called on farmers to be patient and patriotic. How far are farmers in Illinois, America's No. 1 soy state, willing to go?
Many one-industry towns have shriveled up and died in recent decades. But not Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Wyoming is a coal state. But it’s becoming a wind state, too.
Coal has driven Wyoming’s economy for decades. The state sits on hundreds of years of coal reserves. But the world is slowly moving away from coal, leaving some towns at a crossroads.
US beef exports to Canada and Mexico are way up since NAFTA came into effect in 1994. But so are imports to the US.
High Point, North Carolina: The home to the world's largest home furnishings show is drawing a lot of international visitors.
For more than a century, North Carolina and southern Virginia were the furniture-making centers of America. Foreign competition from Asia has taken most of that work away over — 60 percent of the jobs have disappeared since 1990. But North Carolina isn’t going down without a fight.
We’ve been hearing a lot about tariffs and trade wars. To look at how trade disputes can escalate, look at a 17-year-old skirmish between the US and Vietnam, and their fight over catfish.
Just 25 years ago, Alabama used to be a place for textiles. Now it's a place to build cars.