Imperial Beach considers the unthinkable: a retreat from nature.
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October 15, 2018
This issue is bound by the idea that the ecological crises are inseparable from the problem of human domination. Our feature story describes a coastal town in Southern California that is asking whether it can, or should, retreat inland from rising seas. Also in this issue: The Navajo Nation's renewed police force, prisoner strikes, conspiracy theories in Arizona and a tribute to the life and work of Ed Marston, one of High Country News' longtime visionaries.
Feature
How the man who ‘just wanted to write’ created an institution.
Imperial Beach considera lo impensable: emprender retirada a causa de la naturaleza.
Sidebar
Thoughts on HCN’s former publisher from people whose lives he impacted.
Editor's Note
Amid political and cultural tumult, we are unprepared for the new reality of climate change.
Current
New research shows fire-polluted air could kill up to 44,000 people per year by 2100.
In August, inmates renewed protests against solitary confinement and racially biased sentencing.
How one man’s imagined discovery of a sex-trafficking camp in the Sonoran Desert gained life online — and in the real world.
Despite continuous underfunding, a new academy is training cadets to protect the Nation on its own terms.
Essays
In the New Machine Age, hunting helps us accept mortality as truth.
Multimedia
Audience and editor favorites to help us find some solace.
Book Reviews
Over 50 years, the landmark law has protected more than 13,000 miles of American waterways.
A new novel follows two wanderers on a westward journey.
Perspective
Without emissions regulations, the ‘clean’ fossil fuel is as dirty as coal.
Heard Around the West
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
Dear Friends
Staffers get creative with harvest crowns, art openings and personal essays.
Letters
Featured stories
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