Recent and Selected Work
2024
“It Feels Impossible to Stay”: The U.S. Needs Wildland Firefighters More Than Ever, but the Federal Government is Losing Them / ProPublica and Outside
2023
Boom Times: A road trip through the communities shouldering the U.S.’s nuclear missile revival / Scientific American
Zooey Zephyr and the Illiberal Decorum of Montana’s Christian Right / The New Yorker
The American West is Built on Contradicting Ideals. These Elk Hunters Were Caught In the Middle. / Outside
How Montana Took a Hard Right Toward Christian Nationalism / The New York Times Magazine
When A Wildfire Burns a City Built for Extracting Oil / Scientific American
2022
The Great American Antler Boom / The New Yorker
2021
How Violent Cops Stay in Law Enforcement / The New Yorker
How Native Basketball Challenged Colonial Hegemony and Rejected Conformity (book excerpt) / LitHub
This Crazy Feeling of Infinity (book excerpt) / Esquire
2020
For Pueblo / Columbia Journalism Review
An American Jobs Crisis With Few Reporters to Cover It / The New York Times Magazine
Bullock, Daines and Montana’s Growing Pains / High Country News
2011-2019
What the Arlee Warriors Were Playing For / The New York Times Magazine
Coal. Guns. Freedom. / The California Sunday Magazine
The Devil Is Loose / The California Sunday Magazine
In Search of a Stolen Fiddle / Harper’s
The Tribes vs. Donald Trump / Outside
What’s ‘A Prairie Home Companion’ Without Garrison Keillor? / The New York Times Magazine
The Legends of Last Place / The Atavist
Patagonia’s Big Business of Resist / Outside
Dave Morton is Quitting Everest. Maybe. (It’s Complicated.) / Outside
The Last Best Place / Harper’s
The Tricky Ethics of the Lucrative Disaster Rescue Business / Wired
Nepal’s Aid System is Broken. So These Lifesavers Hacked It / Wired
Three Million Acres of Public Lands Are Off the Market—For Now / Outside
Can Kumi Naidoo Make Greenpeace Relevant Again? / Outside
Not Clowning Around / The New Yorker
Waitin’ On Sage / The California Sunday Magazine
The Trials of Bidder 70 / Outside
The Small Town that Took On Big Coal—And Won / The New Republic
The Meat Cutter / The New York Times Magazine
Relentless Generosity — a remembrance of Matthew Power / Outside