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Thomas McNamee

Thomas McNamee  is the author of The Inner Life of Cats, The Killing of Wolf Number Ten, and other books.

Summer on the Sweet Grass

Summer on the Sweet Grass

Notes from a Montana ranch

by Thomas McNamee | Thursday, June 20, 2019

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The Mexican Border: Crossing a Cultural Divide

by Reed Karaim

When Tucson resident Reed Karaim visited the U.S.-Mexico border for the first time, he was struck by how “inconsequential” the line in the sand seemed, belying the amount of suffering experienced by people on both sides of it. “America’s talk-show political culture has cost us the ability to see anything except in black and white,” he writes in this 2011 essay, “but the reality along the border has long been a messy canvas splashed with color.”

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