Topic: the west

Emergency Room nurses and EMTs tend to patients in hallways at the Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital in Houston, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Rich countries blamed for Omicron

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
(Reuters/Gary Cameron/Getty/Solange_Z/Salon)

Utah land war heats up

Amanda Marcotte
Discarded shopping carts lie in the dry Tule riverbed in Porterville, California, October 14, 2014. (Reuters/Lucy Nicholson)

A time of drought and fires

David Gessner
Wallace Stegner, Edward Abbey (Chuck Painter/Stanford News Service; Susan Lapides)

Stegner, Abbey: still relevant

David Gessner
Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi (AP/Charles Platiau)

"A repressive police state"

Rula Jebreal
(Reuters/Nir Elias/Baz Ratner/Salon)

The West’s selective amnesia

Falguni A. Sheth
Rush Limbaugh (Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com)

Greg Grandin - TomDispatch.com
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Paul Ames - GlobalPost