Reno's fire reveals American hubris and a debt to resilience
The wildfire near Reno is not merely a disaster to be managed with hoses and helicopters; it is a profound, expensive lesson in American hubris.
By Emilio Quesada ·
nevada — Lorien Times
Hawk Fire: Carelessness, not climate, threatens Washoe County and Reno
The sheer scale of it, reported by outlets like NPR and RTÉ, is difficult to process.
By Caroline Ashford ·
Firefighters Grapple With Nevada Blaze That Drove Thousands From Homes
The reports pouring out of Nevada this week—the 15,051 acres consumed by the Hawk Fire—are less a chronicle of natural disaster than they are an indictment of American infrastructure planning.
By Tom Beckwith ·
Cisco Aguilar: DHS data misuse is a constitutional barrier
The whole performance—the sweeping claims about 278,000 non-citizens across four states, or even the initial Nevada figure of 15,903—was nothing but a smoke screen.
By Josie Calloway ·
These swing voters in Nevada say they are not dismissing socialist candidates
The story coming out of Nevada—that swing voters are surprisingly open to socialist ideas—is nothing short of alarming.
By Grant Colby ·
Woman Arrested After Confessing to Starting Nevada Fire, Officials Say
The American landscape, it seems, suffers from a profound failure of arithmetic: the cost of individual carelessness is always paid by the collective.
By Emilio Quesada ·
Political void paralyzes NIGC, risking $46 billion revenue
It seems that the sheer, staggering weight of money—$46 billion in tribal gambling revenue alone—has rendered regulatory oversight utterly irrelevant.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
Upper Basin states leave Lower Basin exposed to federal cuts
The Colorado River crisis, as reported by deseret.com and nbcnews.com, is not a legal dispute; it is a structural reckoning.
By Tom Beckwith ·
In Nevada speech, Trump chases after toddler on stage before joking he doesn't want him to 'be Biden and fall'
The theater of modern American politics has become less about policy architecture and more about stagecraft—a series of carefully managed, brightly lit vignettes designed to…
By Emilio Quesada ·
A new Colorado River plan requires water cuts for three states. Deeper cuts are still possible
The headlines concerning the Colorado River are less a report on hydrology and more an elegy for American self-reliance.
By Caroline Ashford ·