Why your vote matters this election above all.
Items by Brian Calvert
High Country News turns 50 this year, but we’re already planning for the decades to come.
Four Colorado writers discuss empathy, systems of oppression and ‘the moment.’
In the face of conflict and misinformation, hope remains.
‘Dominator culture’ and the injustices of climate change, COVID-19 and racism.
Look to others doing good work and act.
A failure of imagination has stymied our outbreak response, but that’s just the beginning.
As the pandemic grinds on, we in the media must continue to bear witness.
Why fusing nationalism and naturalism is a bad idea.
And we’re here to cover them all.
When big thinkers think badly.
The Western U.S. is complicated; more reason to try to understand its workings.
With human impacts felt everywhere, we need a new environmental ethic.
A fresh magazine for another 50 years of HCN.
A problematic symbol of the West gets a reboot.
It’s not too late to confront despair.
Climate fiction can help us imagine the impacts of climate change in a way that science journalism can’t.
In 2068, a West Obsessed investigation.
Prison firefighters are severely underpaid. And they’re the lucky ones.
Evolved as humans are, we’re terrible at solving problems we can’t actually see.
Rise above provocation and choose decency.
A few words on HCN’s award-winning coverage of Native America.
Why we’ve expanded our coverage beyond environmental issues.
The West is facing challenges that won’t be solved without moral considerations.
We’ve become the agents of our own undoing.
Two books warn against the rise of alternative realities.
The U.S. media is taking a beating, even as it struggles to survive.
There is no separating us from the place we live.
Amid political and cultural tumult, we are unprepared for the new reality of climate change.
The West may not represent progress, but it does represent constant flux.
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