While the media tends to paint Mormons with a uber-capitalist brush, the church's roots are actually planted in an almost Marxist theory of equal distribution of wealth.
Items by Jonathan Thompson
How the Western states are doing in various economic indicators
Marriner S. Eccles, a prominent Utah banker and businessman, helped build the foundation for the New Deal
A few charts show the decline of the natural gas industry in Colorado
And Portland toilet dedications
And Las Vegas bull escapes
The Heritage Foundation exposes a sinister, Arab nation-funded plot, that uses Matt Damon to destroy America's energy industry
The "American Moses" may have been a theocratic, autocratic zealot, but he had his moments
On public land in New Mexico, firewood-hunters have illegally cut down hundreds of old-growth juniper trees, much to the dismay of the Bureau of Land Management and environmental activists.
Also, Russian wildland terrorists and ground squirrel invaders
Drought has dealt a blow to the reservoir, but it's not drying up yet
And for prairie dogs, too
The GOP presidential candidate becomes the gajillionth politician to tout energy independence
Can a big bike race make up for the loss of revenue in fire- and recession-battered towns?
We need your on-the-ground observations for our "communities in transition" beat
The West has more mass transit than you might expect. Why aren't more (rich) people using it?
How the natural gas glut is rippling across the economies and landscapes of the West (with charts!)
Looking back can give us some perspective -- maybe even comfort -- in extreme times
A loop around the Four Corners, where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah meet, leads into a land of both historical and geological friction.
Watch a video that's just "a little too weird" for HCN editors!
An annotated map shows you how to find some of the West's odder sites, such as old bombing ranges, giant dams, huge industrial projects and giant telescope arrays.
A guide to some of the West's most prominent pieces of land art or earthworks and some of the altered landscapes that interested or inspired land artists.
A land-art-inspired ramble takes the writer from Michael Heizer's Double Negative, to Robert Smithson's underwater Spiral Jetty, with detours to places including the Bingham Canyon copper mine.
We're all tourists in someone else's town, all of us just wandering through the world, so why not do a special issue on travel in the West?
It might just cure you
The author joins a European tour of the post-industrial landscape of the Great Salt Lake
Despite recent headlines, the "drill baby drill" method isn't getting us close to breaking our dependence on foreign oil
In all the fuss about fracking, the many other problems caused by rampant oil and gas development are being overlooked.
Drilling spouts more (salty toxic nasty) water than it slurps
A two-year planning process in La Plata County, Colorado gets hijacked by activists suspicious of United Nations influence. And in the West and nationwide, they're not alone.
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