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★ This Week's Big Read

The stories shaping how we live now

Almanor is a home for writing that moves — about power, people, and the ideas that actually matter.

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Power

How the Senate's most obscure caucus became the most powerful room in Washington

An inside look at the backchannels quietly rewriting policy.

Culture

The new tastemakers aren't who you think they are

Why the cultural moment is shifting away from the coasts.

Opinion

The climate deal nobody's reporting on — and why it matters more than COP

The real action is happening outside the conference rooms.

Climate

What the West's water crisis is really telling us about the next decade

Follow the water, and you'll find out who holds power.

Power

Meet the 30-somethings taking over state government

A new generation of power players, and what they want.

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★ Power

The K Street shuffle: lobbying's new playbook for the attention economy

How influence campaigns have adapted to a world where a tweet can derail years of legislative work.

Anthony Ramos✦5 min read

★ Culture

The magazine that refuses to die — and what that says about us

Print is back? Not quite. But the nostalgia economy is very, very real, and it's reshaping media.

Staff✦8 min read

★ Climate

The unlikely coalition fighting the Colorado River deal — from inside it

Seven states. One river. A deal that could set the template for climate negotiation everywhere.

Mara Voss✦12 min read

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Indigenous land rights, federal power, and the decade that changed everything

A landmark report on how Indigenous sovereignty claims have fundamentally reoriented the American legal landscape — and what's coming next for communities that have been waiting for justice for generations.

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The stories shaping how we live now

The K Street shuffle: lobbying's new playbook for the attention economy

The magazine that refuses to die — and what that says about us

The unlikely coalition fighting the Colorado River deal — from inside it

Indigenous land rights, federal power, and the decade that changed everything

Read it before everyone else is talking about it.