SAMUEL N GILBERT

Maximum Land with Minimum Palestinians: The Annexation of Area C

Palestine Chronicle

Early this month Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem published a report on Israel’s policy in Area C and its implications for the population of the West Bank.

Less than a

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National tragedy’: Trump begins border wall construction in Unesco reserve

The Guardian
In the face of protests by environmental groups, the wall will traverse the entirety of the southern edge of the monument. It is part of the 175 miles of barrier
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Why Violence Persists in New Mexico’s Indigenous Border Towns

VICE
This article appears in VICE Magazine's Borders Issue. The edition is a global exploration of both physical and invisible borders and examines who is affected by these lines and why
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Church Rock, America’s Forgotten Nuclear Disaster, Is Still Poisoning Navajo Lands 40 Years Later

VICE
Early in the summer of 1979, Larry King, an underground surveyor at the United Nuclear Corporation's Church Rock Uranium mine in New Mexico, began noticing something unusual when looking at
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Madrid Keeps It Weird

New Mexico Magazine

On a warm day in 1988, Riana Peaker-Newman, then 16, and her father, Waylan Peaker, drove the 20 miles south from Santa Fe to Madrid, a once booming coal town

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Madrid, New Mexico, Now Has a Booming Art Scene

New Mexico Magazine
Above: Cowgirl Red in Madrid. On a warm day in 1988, Riana Peaker-Newman, then 16, and her father, Waylan Peaker, drove the 20 miles south from Santa Fe to Madrid,
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New brew: the Native American women upending craft beer

The Guardian
Nowhere is this consumer movement more apparent, and unique, than at Bow & Arrow brewery in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The first and only brewery in the US owned by Native
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Death sentence’: butterfly sanctuary to be bulldozed for Trump’s border wall

The Guardian
On any given day at the National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas, visitors can to see more than 60 varieties of butterflies. In the spring and fall, monarchsand other species
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‘Juárez in a bottle’: Mexican moonshine made with snakes resurfaces in US

The Guardian

When the US banned alcohol production and importation in 1920, spirits from Mexico began illegally crossing the border.

Alongside mass quantities of tequila was the lesser-known sotol: a north Mexican

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