Editor’s note: This letter is in response to an article republished from High Country News on July 5, 2023, titled “The Miller Moth is Hard to Love, But it Deserves Our Respect.”

Three illicitly appointed GOP judges sit at the heart of the court’s legitimacy crisis.

The late scientist Roger Payne captured the sounds of humpback whales and ignited an unlikely global phenomenon.

When thinking of the American West, one might picture Rocky Mountain ranges, the sage-colored foothills of the Great Basin, the Pacific’s long coastal shoreline, or maybe even images of cowboys and Hollywood and cacti. What is less often thought about, but equally true of the Western United States, is the powerful engagement of women in politics at all levels.

Extreme, pro-censorship authoritarians are ringing in July 4 by calling for book bans. That’s un-American and wrong.

Most of us understand the need to cut carbon emissions. But a huge share of our tax dollars are funding the most carbon-intensive institution on the planet.