High Country News

Democrats borrow from Madison Avenue

Denver offers an iconic Western backdrop and the message that "this is not your father's party."

by Ray Ring, Aug 19, 2008
Wake up to the West, wannabe presidents

Pat Williams says the candidates running for the nation’s highest office need to start paying attention to the people – and the problems – of the Rocky Mountain West.

by Pat Williams, Dec 10, 2007
Democrats rise again in the Rockies

Rob Saldin looks at the reasons why the Democrats finally succeeded in breaking the Republican chokehold on the West.

by Rob Saldin, Nov 11, 2008
It's time for a ceasefire on guns

Hal Herring believes that Democrats should give up on gun control, not just for the sake of politics but because it’s the right thing to do.

by Hal Herring, Dec 05, 2008
Victory came from the bottom up

A vast army of determined volunteers were the force behind Obama’s success in Colorado.

by Allen Best, Nov 13, 2008
Republicans face an uncertain battle for governor

Democratic Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper's decision to run for governor of Colorado may throw a spanner into Republican plans to re-take the West.

by Allen Best, Mar 02, 2010
Lynch-mob politics

It's not the Old West -- it's our guide to this year's Western elections.

by Jonathan Thompson, Oct 19, 2010
Utah’s favorite sons battle for governor

In Utah, Democrat Scott Matheson Jr. is duking it out with Republican Jon Huntsman Jr. for the governor’s seat

by Joshua Zaffos, Sep 27, 2004
So much for sticking to the center

George W. Bush has refused to govern from the center, and with the Republicans in charge of the government, a mandate from the voters doesn’t matter

by Jon Margolis, Oct 11, 2004
Go West, Democrats, in the path of Harry Reid

New Senate minority leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., brings to Capitol Hill the lessons learned from a hardscrabble Nevada childhood

by Jon Christensen, Dec 20, 2004