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American West

A farm animal wearing a tracking device | Photo: Louise John, PERC

Technology

Virtual Fencing Can Help Buffalo Roam and Antelope Play

Hundreds of thousands of miles of fences ensnare and sometimes kill wild animals. GPS technology offers an alternative.

Ronald Bailey | 4.24.2025 6:00 AM

Danger sign warning dangerous mine shafts do not pass beyond this point at entrance. | ID 236289887 | Abandoned Mine © Sharksurfer | Dreamstime.com

Environmental Law

New Law Finally Allows Conservationists To Clean Up Abandoned Mines

For decades, federal rules punished good Samaritans who tried to tackle toxic mine pollution. A new program removes barriers to restoring waterways across the West.

Tate Watkins | 12.20.2024 12:30 PM

Kevin Costner in ‘Horizon: An American Saga—Chapter 1’ | New Line Cinema

Movies

Kevin Costner's Neo-Western Horizon: An American Saga—Chapter 1 Is an Interminable Slog

Costner stars, directs, and writes in what amounts to a three-hour prologue for a better movie.

Peter Suderman | 6.28.2024 11:30 AM

Maj. Gen. Phil Brooks, Fires Center of Excellence and Fort Sill commanding general, center, observes as to students practice disabling UAVs during training at Fort Sill's new Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-sUAS) University (JCU). | U.S. Army/Christopher Wilson

Drones

Does Uncle Sam Consider Your Backyard Restricted Airspace?

The areas where you need FAA approval to fly a model plane or drone are surprisingly large.

Matthew Petti | 5.6.2024 9:56 AM

Yellowstone-11 | "Yellowstone" (Paramount Network)

Television

The Real-World Conflicts in Yellowstone Can Be Solved by Markets, Not Drama

Media elites ignore the heartland-themed show, and the real issues behind it, at their own peril.

Shawn Regan and Tate Watkins | 1.22.2022 7:30 AM

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Free Markets

Environmentalists Would Buy the Land They Want To Protect, if The Government Allowed It

"By excluding environmental groups, we get a distorted picture about the value of our natural resources,” says Shawn Regan of the Property and Environment Research Center.

Meredith Bragg | 8.26.2021 1:00 PM

krtphotoslive906010 | Ryan Sabalow/TNS/Newscom

Free Markets

In a Land of Scarce Water, Prices Should Be the Guide

The West needs markets in water, not allocations based on political considerations.

J.D. Tuccille | 8.20.2021 7:00 AM

minisdeadwood | HBO Films

Movies

Deadwood: The Movie

Stephanie Slade | 9.27.2019 6:00 AM

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Oregon Standoff

Blood, Delusions, and Corruption in the American West

"This country is now full of men and women with long-term personal experience of contemporary guerrilla insurrection."

Brian Doherty | 9.15.2019 6:00 AM

Large image on homepages | Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Lifestyle

D.C. vs. the Wide Open West

The relationship between the people who inhabit those spaces and their distant and often distrusted imperial government.

J.D. Tuccille | 12.24.2018 6:00 AM

Large image on homepages | Regnery History

Andrew Jackson

Wrestling With Old Hickory's Ghost

A conservative re-evaluation of President Andrew Jackson

Anthony Comegna | 12.17.2018 6:00 AM

Large image on homepages | stevecoleimages/iStock

Lifestyle

Out West, Rules Are Made To Be Broken

J.D. Tuccille | 5.30.2018 6:00 AM

Politics

Wandering in the Wilderness

Jesse Walker | 4.1.1999 12:00 AM

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