Competing interests have ignited a tug of war between the town of about 3,000 people who want a huge copper mine built there for its economic benefits, and Native American groups that consider the land sacred and are fighting to protect it from disturbance.
The overlap between organized labor and the Latino vote in Arizona and Nevada is another important angle of the midterms that has received too little attention.
Abortion, racism and denying election results are all moral issues facing voters this November. But columnist Michael Sean Winters wonders whether rising gas prices will sideline them all.
Catholic groups are among state social service agencies, attorneys and others working to provide legal services, medical care, clothes, food and shelter for 48 migrants sent to Martha's Vineyard with no advance warning.
We are now less than two months from the midterm elections. The New York Times' polling genius Nate Cohn has started to zero in on the midterm polling, and he is flashing a big yellow caution light to Democrats.
Members of Apache Stronghold, a nonprofit working to protect the Apache sacred site in Arizona known as Oak Flat, are requesting a rehearing in their case against the United States as they seek to stop a private venture from turning the land into an underground copper mine.
In his roundup, Michael Sean Winters is watching the secretary of state election in Arizona and notes columns about the pope's trip to Canada and a liberal Greek Orthodox archbishop.
When the current political climate is as prone to wildfires as is the natural environment, helping get these extremist GOP candidates within striking distance is a risk that Democrats should not have taken.
