In the West, more than 4 million people are enrolled in marketplace plans supported by the Affordable Care Act. Depending on ...

The rural West’s increasing health care costs haunt the shutdown ...

In the weeks leading up to the shutdown, tribal nations hefted their political and economic capital to protect services for ...

I learned that the Chinese comprised nearly a quarter of Montana’s population in the late 19th century. They lived and worked in nearly every town across the state, from the most remote mining camps, ...

At 16, he accepted an invitation from legendary choreographer George Balanchine to join the New York City Ballet. Four years later, Soto was the theater’s principal dancer — a pinnacle that any ballet ...

Paul Kim is a writer and documentary filmmaker. They previously produced The Bodies Beneath Us, a feature documentary on an unmarked Chinese gravesite in Missoula, Montana, and are currently directing ...

HOOD LEARNED HOW TO MAKE BOWS in his late teens, teaching at a survival school where a co-worker led bow-making clinics. Hood welcomed the chance to learn a new skill, but the work didn’t satisfy him ...

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And it’s true, in the West, cities sprawl out across deserts and prairies with only mountains to fence them in. My hometown was ringed with sagebrush and open prairie. There are no city skyscrapers ...

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Josh Jackson is a writer and photographer whose work explores the overlooked public lands of the West. He shares weekly dispatches on these landscapes through his Forgotten Lands Substack, weaving ...