“Rural spaces,” writes Elizabeth Catte, author of What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia , “are often thought of as places absent of things, from people of color to modern amenities to radical politics. The truth, as usual, is more complicated.” With activists, historians, and political scientists as guides, Left Elsewhere explores the radical politics of rural America—its past, its priorities, and its moral commitments—that mainstream progressives overlook. This volume shows how these communities are fighting, and winning, some of the left’s biggest battles. From novel health care initiatives in the face of the opioid crisis to living wages for teachers, these struggles do not fall neatly into the “puny language,” as Rev. William Barber says, of Democrat or Republican. Instead they help us rethink the rural–urban opposition at the heart of U.S. politics. The future of the left, this collection argues, could be found elsewhere. Elizabeth Catte, a public historian and activist based in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, is the author of What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia , and coeditor of  55 Strong: Inside the West Virginia Teachers' Strike. Her work has been featured in A ll Things Considered , the  Guardian , the  Nation , the  New Yorker,   Bookforum ,  On the Media ,  Guernica , the  Los Angeles Times , and the  New York Review of Books . Deborah Chasman is Coeditor-in-Chief of Boston Review . Joshua Cohen is Coeditor-in-Chief of Boston Review , member of the faculty of Apple University, and Distinguished Senior Fellow in Law, Philosophy, and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Elizabeth Catte, a public historian and activist based in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, is the author of What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia , and coeditor of  55 Strong: Inside the West Virginia Teachers' Strike. Her work has been featured in A ll Things Considered , the  Guardian , the  Nation , the  New Yorker,   Bookforum ,  On the Media ,  Guernica , the  Los Angeles Times , and the  New York Review of Books . Elizabeth Catte, a public historian and activist based in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, is the author of What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia , and coeditor of  55 Strong: Inside the West Virginia Teachers' Strike. Her work has been featured in A ll Things Considered , the  Guardian , the  Nation , the  New Yorker,   Bookforum ,  On the Media ,  Guernica , the  Los Angeles Times , and the  New York Review of Books .