November 2020
Politika is the Greek word for politics and means “affairs of the city,” or “affairs of the citizens in arranging our life together.” I imagine without a dozen daily mail flyers and hourly pollster calls, politics could be a…
August 2020
From the beginning of humankind, women have supported other women as they birthed their babies. These support persons are known as “doulas.” Doulas are welcomed into homes, birth centers, and hospitals alongside a laboring woman and her…
July 2020
Phil Knight
In the 1997 movie thriller Asteroid, an extinction-level impact is predicted as an asteroid is aimed at Earth by a passing comet. Three aircraft with lasers are scrambled and succeed in breaking up the asteroid though smaller fragments still…
June 2020
Kate Hulbert
In 2016, an article written by a Montana photographer accused Glacier National Park of “destroying itself from the inside” with an Instagram-driven marketing strategy. He criticized the park’s social media program for…
May 2020
Families ripped apart....you didn’t protest.
Kids in cages getting sexually abused by ICE....you didn’t protest.
Black kids killed by cops...you didn’t protest.
Whole cities with poisoned water...you didn’t…
April 2020
Read our April 2020 printed magazine online in an interactive flip-book.
April 2020
It happened again the other day.I was a few miles into a leisurely afternoon run when I heard a man shouting, “Don’t worry. He’s friendly!”There are few words less reassuring to a runner.A moment later, the dog was upon me. At…
March 2020
As a school bus driver in Bozeman, I love the smiling faces and the great kids I get to deliver to school every day. The counter to that is my real disappointment with drivers running the flashing reds and stop signs of the school busses all around…
January 2020
Montana Grant
Few trucks or cars are without a bumper sticker. Some rides are completely covered. Some rigs sport only a couple. Too many bumper stickers are tacky. Bumper stickers display our right and freedom of expression. Finding a sweet spot that is…
December 2019
Kris Drummond
We live in a culture that cultivates the art of pretending not to know. This could be one definition of privilege. In playing along, we the privileged beneficiaries of the system avert our eyes from injustice, greed, and inhumanity to take up…
