Perspective

As DACA falls again, what does it mean to be American?

Tony Valdovinos was brought to the U.S. at the age of 2. The challenges of not having citizenship haven’t stopped his success.

Fernanda Santos Perspective Oct. 4, 2023 From the print edition

We don’t need utopias

What if Eden is chilling out in your neighborhood?

Ruxandra Guidi Perspective Sept. 1, 2023 From the print edition

Water quality research helps bring healing and sovereignty to the Apsáalooke

‘I know it is my responsibility to care for this land that has always taken care of me.’

JoRee LaFrance Perspective July 24, 2023

Rekindling with fire

An Indigenous writer reclaims her relationship with fire in the landscape of her ancestors.

Jessica Douglas Perspective Dec. 1, 2021 From the print edition

Seeing COP26 through the lens of Ríos to Rivers’ chief storyteller

Paul Robert Wolf Wilson’s photos take you into the streets and behind the scenes of the convention.

Paul Robert Wolf Wilson Photos Perspective Nov. 16, 2021

The White Sands discovery only confirms what Indigenous people have said all along

Once again, the media has excluded Indigenous peoples from our own story.

Nick Martin Perspective Sept. 24, 2021 From the print edition

The familial bond between the Klamath River and the Yurok people

How a tribal community’s health is intimately connected to the health of the river.

Brook Thompson Perspective Aug. 24, 2021 From the print edition

Why I changed my mind about Bears Ears

The benefits of a national monument in San Juan County outweigh the costs.

Jonathan Thompson Perspective June 11, 2021

So you want to acknowledge the land?

Some notes on a trend, and what real justice could look like.

Summer Wilkie Perspective April 22, 2021 From the print edition

There are no clear winners in the West’s water wars

As climate stressors raise the stakes, states put energy into litigation before conservation.

Robert Glennon Perspective April 21, 2021

Will COVID-19 vaccinations mean more prison overcrowding deaths?

California’s decades-old ‘tough on crime’ laws still fill prisons, creating disease danger zones.

Rahsaan “New York” Thomas Perspective April 15, 2021 From the print edition

As the country reckons with race, will tribal nations lead the way?

The descendants of those once enslaved by tribes continue to push for equality.

Alaina E. Roberts Perspective March 30, 2021 From the print edition

Mountaintop removal threatens traditional Blackfoot territory

Stop the Grassy Mountain coal project before it starts.

Rosalyn LaPier Perspective Feb. 1, 2021 From the print edition

How Wyoming’s Black coal miners shaped their own history

Many early Wyoming coal towns had thriving Black communities.

Brigida R. Blasi Perspective Jan. 28, 2021 From the print edition

Pro-Trump riots won’t stop the winds of political change blowing in the West

What the D.C. insurgency meant for our regional conscience.

Ruxandra Guidi Perspective Jan. 11, 2021

I lost my mom to COVID-19. Don’t let the holidays steal yours.

If you understood how much this hurts, you might stop planning Thanksgiving.

Emily McCarty Perspective Nov. 23, 2020

Contested water settlements inflamed the Navajo Nation’s health crisis

Colonial laws and federal neglect created a worse-case scenario during a global pandemic.

Andrew Curley Perspective Aug. 11, 2020

Canada’s Oka Crisis marked a change in how police use force

Decades later, the standoff between Mohawk activists and police shows a stark comparison in militarization.

Rosalyn LaPier Perspective July 21, 2020

How the ‘only family’ argument is used against Indigenous families

The phrasing was once deployed to keep Native families together under the Indian Child Welfare Act. Now, the narrative has been reversed.

Matthew Fletcher Perspective July 9, 2020

Trump’s monumental hypocrisy

Despite decrying destruction of Confederate monuments, the president has dismantled millions of acres of national monuments.

Chris D’Angelo Perspective June 29, 2020

The West has a role in reimagining the U.S.

Our notion of ‘American exceptionalism’ has collapsed. What will replace it?

Ruxandra Guidi Perspective June 23, 2020

In southwestern Colorado, immigrants face a dual crisis

A global pandemic, and no social safety net leave immigrant and mixed-status families fending for themselves.

Benjamin Waddell Perspective June 19, 2020

The Forest Service should embrace a full-time workforce

Permanently investing in firefighters would improve the health of employees and the landscapes we protect.

Anastasia Selby Perspective June 15, 2020 From the print edition

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