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Dislodging a Logjam

Dislodging a Logjam

President Bill Clinton and the 1993 Timber Summit
Adam M. Sowards 18 Feb 2026
Preserving Sanctuaries

Preserving Sanctuaries

Stegner, parks, and politics
Adam M. Sowards 09 Apr 2025
Finding Grant McConnell and the North Cascades

Finding Grant McConnell and the North Cascades

Loving a place and becoming an applied political scientist
Adam M. Sowards 22 Jan 2025
A Question of Political Leadership

A Question of Political Leadership

Rethinking a "Scoop" Jackson anecdote
Adam M. Sowards 20 Nov 2024
Shifting Political Baselines

Shifting Political Baselines

How a concept from fisheries biology is relevant to politics
Adam M. Sowards 24 Jul 2024

No Sacrifices of the Public Interest in Times of Emergency

"No Sacrifices of the Public Interest in Times of Emergency," The Revelator (May 6, 2020). No Sacrifices of the Public Interest in Times of Emergency • The RevelatorThe Trump administration continues to strip away environmental protections in the pandemic. History shows that the people can fight back — and win.
Adam M. Sowards 06 May 2020

Passenger Pigeons, Democracy, and a Future to Seize

Martha, the last passenger pigeon, died in the Cincinnati Zoo in 1914. Forty-three years later, in 1947, a monument memorialized the extinct pigeons in Wyalusing State Park in Wisconsin at the confluence of the Mississippi and Wisconsin Rivers, just south of Prairie du Chien. The state’s most famous
Adam M. Sowards 07 Apr 2020

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