No Bloodline Owns America
In one week in 1924, Congress decided my Romanian family was an invasion and my Navajo family was American. The same theory of the country is back — and my family's story shows the way out.
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The Return of Old Conservation Politics
How parts of the conservation movement have answered tribes asking for land back — the refusals, the counteroffers, the racism underneath — and why the Trump era is bringing it all back.
The Unreadable Winter
A very strong El Niño is forming in the Pacific. The Colorado River’s incoming rules assume we know what that means. We don’t.
When the Land Acknowledgment Asks for the Land
Sandia Pueblo asked for its mountain back. New Mexico’s conservation groups are showing us exactly where their support for tribal sovereignty runs out.
The Most Persuadable Environmental Voter in America Was at a Fuerza Regida Concert
The environmental groups are spending a fortune to change the minds least likely to change — and ignoring the group where the country is actually decided.
Bears Ears Is About to Be Cut Again. The Environmental Establishment Had Nine Years.
Five national environmental organizations reported $91 million in senior compensation while the monument remained reversible and Native-led capacity remained underfunded.
The Rez Electric Vehicle Series Is Here
A Cybertruck, a fifty-five-mile Fiat, and three hundred miles across the Navajo Nation. The series is out, and eight months since we drove only sharpened the point.
Who Pays for the Sentence
Why I’d rather be funded by thousands of strangers than one foundation — and what the research actually says about why that matters.
Obeying in Advance
No one is forcing the environmental establishment to surrender. That’s exactly the problem.
The Whitest Sentence in Conservation
"Nature is nonpartisan" isn't peace. It's a luxury good, a lie, and — on the data — a losing bet.