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Dear Governors of America,
Stop telling us what you can’t do.
I’ve heard every variation of the excuse by now. Federal jurisdiction. Limited authority. We’re monitoring the situation. We’ll await the investigation. I’ve heard them after M...
He got up at 5:50 in the morning. Every morning, for thirty-five years, in a country that spent the last one hunting him.
That’s the whole story, if you want it in one sentence and you don’t have time for the rest. But you should make time...
Every functioning democracy depends on a peculiar species of human being. You know the type even if you’ve never bothered to learn their names. They’re the people who show up before the cameras arrive and leave long after the cameras have f...
Photo: Matthew Wagner / @matthew.wagnerphotos
We stood on the Hill in hundred-degree heat. A handful of independent journalists including our own affiliates at Owl Media waited at the Triangle for the unprecedented act of dissent we were p...
There’s a particular kind of cold that hits Montana in November — not weather cold, election cold. The kind where you watch the numbers roll in from Great Falls and Miles City and know, deep in your gut, whether the state just told itself t...
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Closer to the Edge documents power in real time, connects the dots others won’t, and publishes clear, relentless journalism that refuses to look away when the truth gets ugly.
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