In a cover story for High Country News, photographer Bear Guerra documents the tension in US Border Control’s dual mission to detain and deport migrants and to rescue those in distress.
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Flipping the script on juvenile detention
In an episode for the 70 Million podcast and an article in High Country News, Ruxandra Guidi takes us to rural St. Johns, Arizona, where officials have transformed a juvenile detention center into a place where teens can play pool, make music, and receive mentoring instead of going to jail.
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Following the searchers into the desert
Homelands’ Bear Guerra accompanied volunteers with the group Aguilas del Desierto as they searched for missing migrants in the desert near the Mexico-Arizona border. Nine of his photos appear in the BuzzFeed News article “We Know How They Suffer.”
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Dispatches from late Covid America
In a public journal on social media and Medium, Sandy Tolan chronicles his road trip through a vast country both changed and unchanged by the churn of the historical moment.
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Winds of Change Sweep the West
The spectacle of far-right hate groups launching violent attacks around the country cannot obscure the deeper changes that are transforming political and social life across the region, Ruxandra Guidi writes in High Country News.
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Bear takes new post at High Country News
We are pleased to announce that Roberto (Bear) Guerra has been named photo editor of High Country News. Bear is an award-winning documentary photographer and photojournalist whose work addresses globalization, development, and social and environmental …
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Stalking elusive migrants from Mexico
In a major piece for Pacific Standard magazine, Homelands’ Alan Weisman goes deep into the wilderness of northern Mexico and southern Arizona on the trail of jaguars who venture across the border. The 300-pound cats are at the …
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Remembering Chuck Bowden
Journalist and author Charles Bowden died on August 30. Homelands’ Alan Weisman describes an outsized man with an outsized personality in a remembrance on the blog of Orion Magazine. Alan writes: “Should you aspire to write yourself, absolutely do …