New Mexico

The Biden administration's nominee for secretary of interior, Democratic Rep. Deb Haaland, from New Mexico, speaks at The Queen Theater in Wilmington, Delaware, Dec. 19, 2020.

Deb Haaland, Biden’s interior secretary nominee, says she’ll be ‘fierce for our planet’

Biden administration

Rep. Deb Haaland of New Mexico, President Biden’s nominee for secretary of the interior, is the first Native American to lead the department. She plans to bring a strong conservation, climate action and tribal rights record to the agenda.

Woman at podium wipes away tears, while man stands next to her

Former detainees tell New Mexico legislators about abuses in immigration detention as county seeks to renew contracts

Immigration

Sofia

Arts, Culture & Media

Eastern Orthodox Iconography

Arts, Culture & Media

Ginger Miles’s Diary

Arts, Culture & Media
Hand holding pen taking notes that read "civil disobedience"

How to shut down an immigration raid — even if it means getting arrested

Conflict

Activists in Las Cruces, New Mexico, 45 miles from the southern border, are teaching each other to pit their bodies against Donald Trump’s immigration agenda.

Astronomer Al Grauer and his wife Annie were instrumental in getting a dark sky sanctuary designation for the Cosmic Campground in New Mexico. The recognition came from the International Dark Sky Association.

A place where the stars are so bright you can see your shadow by starlight

Science

A remote campground in southwest New Mexico has recently become the world’s second dark sky sanctuary for star gazers. The rapid spread of light pollution prevents more than half of the world’s population from seeing the Milky Way.

Congress considering measure to preserve atomic labs as National Parks

Global Politics

America’s nuclear heritage has few sites open to the public. But since the Cold War ended, several sites have fallen out of active use. After narrowly avoiding being torns down, there’s a movement to open them to the public as National Parks.

The World

The Writing on the Wall

Cleaning up graffiti in some of our nation’s parks and monuments requires expertise and cultural sensitivity.

Las Vegas: the “Single Dad” City

Sin City has a new claim to fame, with the highest per capita rate of single fathers than any other city in America. Franz Strasser, a reporter for our partner the BBC, spoke to some of those single dads in Las Vegas.