50 States

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?

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.

Many one-industry towns have shriveled up and died in recent decades. But not Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

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.

Wyoming is a coal state. But it’s becoming a wind state, too.