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Extremism

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Who is spouting violent rhetoric?

by Jonathan Thompson July 17, 2024August 8, 2024

Reflections on this fraught moment in history.

Kyle Wheeler at Dancing Swallows Big Gay Bird Sanctuary and Memorial Pond in Chehalis, Washington.
Posted inJune 2024: The Idea of Wilderness

Hate groups in western Washington echo the past

by Leah Sottile June 1, 2024June 17, 2024

The bigotry displayed when white supremacists disrupted a Pride celebration in Centralia repeats a pattern that dates back to 1919.

Posted inArticles

The end of a frontier dream amid the Unabomber’s reign of terror

by Maxim Loskutoff May 27, 2024August 8, 2024

An excerpt from ‘Old King,’ Maxim Loskutoff’s latest novel.

Posted inMay 2024: A River Returns

How attacks on energy substations play into the hands of extremists

by Jane C. Hu May 1, 2024May 2, 2024

When the West’s electrical grid is targeted, motives tend to matter less than ensuing propaganda.

Posted inAugust 1, 2023: In the Line of Fire

Oregon’s Greater Idaho movement echoes a long history of racism in the region

by Leah Sottile August 1, 2023May 21, 2024

Instead of fixing Oregon, the Greater Idaho movement seeks to leave it. White supremacists are on board.

A photo of Ted Kaczynski positioned in the window of a member of the Eugene, Oregon activist community. It reads “Be Like Ted.”
Posted inArticles

James Watt, Ted Kaczynski and power over lands

by Leah Sottile June 13, 2023January 24, 2024

The legacies of the two recently departed men are intertwined.

Posted inJanuary 1, 2023: Ripple Effects

Growing up queer in Colorado Springs

by Brandon Sward December 22, 2022January 24, 2024

In the wake of the Club Q mass shooting, reflections on an adolescence in the ‘Evangelical Vatican.’

Posted inNovember 1, 2022: The Futures of Conservation

How to prevent an anti-government revolution

by Sarah Trent October 26, 2022January 24, 2024

In eastern Oregon, one strategy has proven effective at inoculating communities against extremist ideology.

Posted inArticles

Was Yellowstone’s deadliest wolf hunt in 100 years an inside job?

by Ryan Devereaux July 27, 2022January 24, 2024

Veteran park service employees were involved in last year’s hunt, but one says he’s a victim of a federal ‘witch hunt.’

Posted inArticles

(Not) one nation, under God

by Ruxandra Guidi July 20, 2022January 24, 2024

To truly become a more equal society, look to our youth, the ‘nones.’

Posted inArticles

Where anti-LGBTQ+ politics intersect with housing the homeless

by Theo Whitcomb June 27, 2022January 24, 2024

A new report shows Southern Oregon’s largest homeless shelter is led by a conversion-therapy proponent.

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Posted inAugust 1, 2022: Our Fiery Future

When extremism hides in plain sight

by Kylie Mohr June 21, 2022January 24, 2024

Leah Sottile investigates how an Idaho couple’s embrace of fringe Mormon beliefs led to multiple murder charges in her debut book, ‘When the Moon Turns to Blood.’

Posted inOctober 1, 2021: In The Graces of Grasses

When public health becomes the public enemy

by Jane C. Hu September 24, 2021January 24, 2024

Far-right extremists are robbing the West of the officials who protect community health.

Posted inJuly 1, 2021: An Urban Greenspace Revolution

How a trail in rural Oregon became a target of far-right extremism

by Leah Sottile July 1, 2021January 24, 2024

To understand the state’s urban-rural divide, start by looking at Yamhill County’s proposed walking trail.

Posted inArticles

Will history repeat in a dry Klamath Basin this summer?

by Anna V. Smith June 14, 2021January 24, 2024

This year’s drought is worse than in 2001, when political and environmental tensions exploded into the national spotlight.

Posted inFebruary 1, 2021: End of the Line

Meet the gun-toting ‘Tenacious Unicorns’ in rural Colorado

by Eric Siegel January 14, 2021January 24, 2024

How a transgender-owned alpaca ranch in Colorado foretells the future of the rural queer West.

Posted inArticles

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

by Ruxandra Guidi January 11, 2021January 24, 2024

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

Posted inFebruary 1, 2021: End of the Line

The Washington, D.C., siege has Western roots and consequences

by Carl Segerstrom January 8, 2021January 24, 2024

History and the growing power of right-wing extremism point to a volatile future for the West during the Biden presidency.

Posted inArticles

Bracing for unlawful militias and vigilantes at the ballot box

by Kalen Goodluck November 3, 2020January 24, 2024

Emboldened by Trump’s rhetoric, armed groups plan to post up near poll sites.

Posted inArticles

How anti-Indigeneity proliferates around the West and the world

by High Country News September 25, 2020January 24, 2024

Across the globe, anti-Indigenous organizations and sympathizers work to undermine the collective rights of Indigenous peoples.

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