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West (U.S.)

The Great Republican Land Heist

Cliven Bundy and the politicians who are plundering the West

Cowburnt

by Edward Abbey,

Most of the public lands in the West, and especially in the Southwest, are what you might call “cowburnt.” Almost anywhere and everywhere you go in the American West you…

The Long Draw

by Jeremy Miller,

On the trail of an artistic mystery in the American West

You better not pout

by Harper’s Staff,

The searchers

by Alec Wilkinson,

In pursuit of the drowned

Mighty White of You

by Jack Hitt,

Racial preferences color America’s oldest skulls and bones

Any semblance whatsoever

Art by Brent Steen,

That’s as fair as I know how to make it

Art by David Rathman,

Wooden dollar

by Ben Metcalf,

The undiscovered Sacajawea

New books

by Guy Davenport,

Barbed Wire

by Reviel Netz,