Help keep Salon independent

Steven C. Beda

A burned residence smolders during the Bear fire, part of the North Lightning Complex fires, in unincorporated Butte County, California on September 09, 2020. (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Climate change and forest management have both fueled today’s epic Western wildfires

Steven C. Beda
The front page of the Seattle Union Record at the beginning of the Seattle General Strike. (Wikimedia)

Why the Seattle General Strike of 1919 should inspire a new generation of labor activists

Steven C. Beda
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Collaboration, not fighting, is what the rural West is really about

Steven C. Beda
Rural areas have been especially slow to recover from the Great Recession (AP)

Six charts that illustrate the divide between rural and urban America

Brian Thiede, Lillie Greiman, Stephan Weiler, Steven C. Beda, Tessa Conroy