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I Believe California Has a Right to Exist

March 9, 2026

Color photograph of Gavin Newsom speaking with U.S. and California flags behind him.

Ammon Bundy Is All Alone

February 1, 2026

The Giant, Voracious Sea Lions That Humans Cannot Stop

Katherine J. Wu

January 7, 2026

Blurred image of a sea lion in silhouette against foaming water.

The Destruction of One of America’s Oldest Traditions

October 7, 2025

An image of federal agents attempting to keep protesters back outside an ICE facility on October 05, 2025 in Portland, Oregon

National Security

Portland’s ‘War Zone’ Is Like Burning Man for the Terminally Online

Isaac Stanley-Becker

October 2, 2025

Protesters—including one dressed in a chicken suit—gather after dark outside a big gray building surrounded by a chain-link fence.

How Tortillas Lost Their Magic

Kristen V. Brown

December 23, 2024

Stacks of tortillas

Shade Will Make or Break American Cities

August 2, 2024

A man wipes his forehead under the hot sun as he walks under shade sail.

Drones Could Unite Ranchers and Conservationists

April 6, 2024

A drone wearing a cowboy hat hovers against a red sky.

Why Oregon’s Drug Decriminalization Failed

Keith Humphreys and Rob Bovett

March 17, 2024

A police officer issues a ticket for public fentanyl consumption.

Why California and Oregon Broke With the CDC

Juliette Kayyem

February 4, 2024

a mask lying in the street

What Happened When Oregon Decriminalized Hard Drugs

July 19, 2023

A black and white scene of tents underneath an overpass

19 Ways to Understand This Heat

July 13, 2023

A photograph of a woman drinking from a water bottle, with a full afternoon sun blazing onto her.

The Loss of Spring Is Disastrous

June 25, 2023

A man reads on the ledge near a stream filled with melting snowpack

Oregon Has Mixed Feelings About the Return of Sea Otters

August 20, 2022

close up of otter

Modern America’s Most Successful Secessionist Movement

Antonia Hitchens

December 23, 2021

Mike McCarter, the head of Move Oregon's Border and Citizens for Greater Idaho, talks outside HC Sporting Goods ahead of a Move Oregon's Border meeting in Hines, Oregon, on Saturday, October 16.

‘Our Next Option Was the Back of My Pickup’

Hanna Merzbach and High Country News

June 6, 2021

Alma Alvarez sitting in the front seat of her car

How a ‘False Flag’ Cry Has Divided Republicans in Oregon

February 10, 2021

An image in red and yellow of the U.S. Capitol and the Republican 'elephant'

I’m Leaving the West Coast

Karleigh Frisbie Brogan

September 26, 2020

The Portland Steel Bridge covered in smoke from wildfires.

The West Has Never Felt So Small

September 10, 2020

The Willamette Valley, in Oregon, with an orange sky

In the Pandemic, Every State Should Vote by Mail

Priscilla Southwell

April 14, 2020

A mailbox with an "I Voted" sticker