Sacred exchange, made visible

Alaska

6 pieces

Twenty-Five Minutes From an Ambulance

October 6, 2026

As rural hospitals close, the ride to care gets longer and the ride starts later. A 2026 Alaska study found a 262-minute median from the call to arrival, and the longest phase…

Federal Funding Averages 13% of a Public Radio Station's Budget. For the Only News Source in Northwest Alaska, It Was Up to 50%. The Same Cut Landed Completely Differently Depending on Where a Station Already Stood.

September 8, 2026

Congress cut $1.1 billion from public broadcasting in one vote. An average station barely felt it. A station with no other source of revenue -- and no other source of local news,…

Six Times in 159 Years, America Bought Territory for the Same Two Reasons

August 20, 2026

Alaska, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Guantanamo Bay, and the US Virgin Islands all run the same two-part logic: something worth having, paired with denying it to a rival power. Every one…

Alaska turned its land settlement into shares. Hawaii's never became shares at all.

August 20, 2026

Alaska was bought for $7.2 million in 1867, about two cents an acre. A 1971 land settlement split the state's land among corporations rather than a trust like Hawaii's -- which…

Someone decided these counties don't count -- twice

August 20, 2026

More than 2.2 million Americans live without running water, concentrated in the Navajo Nation, Texas border colonias, Appalachia, and the Alabama Black Belt. The Texas counties…

Alaska and Hawaii Aren't California

Alaska and Hawaii both report into the San Francisco Fed district — the same district that already dominates every national reading. Their own sentiment is invisible by…