As the Colorado River crisis worsens, an unregulated housing development faces a reckoning.
Items by Sarah Tory
As construction continues, U.S. and Mexican conservationists work together to preserve remaining corridors.
In the San Luis Valley, the communal and egalitarian resource offers a way of life.
As the housing crisis in the West deepens, more unhoused people are making a home outside.
‘The alternative is something they don’t want to think about.’
A young photographer highlights the environmental crises facing Indigenous communities at home and abroad.
When a private prison company came to Evanston, Wyoming, local officials believed an economic revival was at hand. Instead, it unleashed a bitter debate.
Three new books challenge the way we imagine the U.S.-Mexico border.
‘Los Desposeídos’ sigue la aterrante búsqueda de una familia por refugio, y cuestiona las nuevas políticas públicas y lo que dicen sobre los ideales de esta nación.
Binational groups are preserving migratory corridors and restoring degraded areas in the Borderlands. Will the landscape be severed?
‘The Dispossessed’ follows a family’s harrowing search for safety, and asks what new policies say about the nation’s long-standing ideals.
From a campus legal clinic all the way to the Supreme Court, UC stands up for Dreamers.
One family’s ordeal under Trump’s zero tolerance immigration tactics.
Law professor César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández analyzes why America puts so many immigrants behind bars.
The Twin Falls resettlement program continues to thrive in the face of recent serious challenges.
A labor trafficking case shows Westerners can sometimes still count on each other to protect those in need.
The challenges and possibilities of water buffalo ranching in the Roaring Fork Valley.
‘We had no choice but to make it work.’
President Trump’s pitch is ‘a sound bite, not a cogent public policy position.’
In her new novel, Valeria Luiselli explores the possibilities and limits of writing about the border crisis.
Deterrence strategies have turned increasingly punitive for immigrants and activists.
In Tijuana, an upstart model tries to address the challenges of educating U.S. kids who relocated to keep their families together.
Communities in South San Diego sue over sewage spills.
The Trump administration is ignoring a big question: How do you secure a border below ground?
The Newcomers explores the lives of immigrant teens and what it takes to become an American.
In August, inmates renewed protests against solitary confinement and racially biased sentencing.
What happens to a community when its sense of belonging begins to unravel?
Luis Alberto Urrea’s new novel reflects on the family relationships that challenge and transcend the U.S.-Mexico border.
Decades after their arrival, a family is woven into the fabric of Colorado’s San Luis Valley.
Where the ‘rule of law’ is synonymous with Trump.
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HOMESICK: WHY HOUSING IS UNAFFORDABLE AND HOW WE CAN CHANGE IT A timely, damning, and ultimately hopeful investigation of housing in the United States. Essential reading in the West.
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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR- ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION COMMITTEE OF WEST MARIN The EAC's Executive Director provides overall leadership for the operation of the organization. The Executive Director is responsible for implementing programs and policies set by...
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UTE LEGENDS These carefully researched stories reflect a deep and abiding understanding of Ute culture and history. These authintic, colorful legends also illustrate the Ute's close connections...
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SURGICAL SHARPENING SERVICE is a Denver-based mail order surgical instrument sharpening service established in 2009. Specialties include surgical scissors, dental elevators, trocar sets, and gynecological biopsy forceps.
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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR California Coalition for Rural Housing (CCRH) seeks a strategic and visionary Executive Director: View all job details here- https://bit.ly/CCRHED
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MONTANA BLUES Thrilling new crime novel by ex-HCN editor Ray Ring : A rural White horsewoman and an urban Black man battle White supremacists in a tough...
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CANYONLANDS FIELD INSTITUTE Field seminars for adults in natural and human history of the northern Colorado Plateau, with lodge and base camp options. Small groups, guest experts.
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COMING TO TUCSON? Popular vacation house, everything furnished. Two bedroom, one bath, large enclosed yards. Dog-friendly. Contact Lee at [email protected] or 520-791-9246.
