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Gun-reform advocates line Pennsylvania Avenue while attending the March for Our Lives rally on March 24th, 2018, in Washington, D.C.

Social Justice

As the Republican Senate Blocks Reform, States Pass Their Own Gun-Control Laws

Since their governors' offices flipped to Democrat, New Mexico and Nevada have paved the way on gun reform.

Cecil Joe, a member of the Navajo Nation, fills a water tank supplying one Navajo household on June 5th, 2019, in Thoreau, New Mexico. Due to a legacy of poverty, marginalization, and disputed water rights, up to 40 percent of Navajo families don't have clean running water at home and are forced to rely on visits to water pumps.

Drought Intensifies the Navajo Nation’s Ongoing Water Shortage (in Photos)

Although drought conditions are improving across most of the U.S., more than 40 percent of Navajo households still don't have running water at home.

Emily Moon

Civilian paramilitaries with Arizona Border Recon search for undocumented immigrants near the U.S.–Mexico border on November 14th, 2016, near Arivaca, Arizona. The armed group, made up mostly of former U.S. military servicemen and women, does not consider itself a militia, but sees itself as supplementing Border Patrol's efforts to control illegal border activity.

Armed Militias on the Border Have a Long—and Often Racist—History

A recent arrest put armed militias patrolling the southern border in the public spotlight, but they have a lineage as long as the border itself.

Jack Herrera

Then-Representative, now Governor of New Mexico, Michelle Lujan Grisham speaks at the 2016 Democratic National Convention.

Social Justice

What Happens If Sheriffs Refuse to Enforce State Gun-Control Laws?

Second Amendment sanctuary counties are coming to liberal states, like New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington.

Brianna Provenzano

Signs are posted on the gated wall around the main technical area of Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico.

Social Justice

Nuclear Lab Employees With Radiation-Linked Cancers Have Been Forced to Wait Years for Potential Benefits

At the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, workers are still waiting for answers about who is liable for sicknesses they say were caused by radiation from the lab.

Rebecca Moss

Environment

Inside the Fight Over Extracting Water From Texas for Fracking in New Mexico

The oil business in New Mexico is booming, but due to the state's stricter laws the groundwater being used to access petroleum is pumped in from Texas.

Matt Weiser