Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Philip Caputo talks about Arizona, Airstreams, and his 2014 road trip book, The Longest Road: Overland in Search of America, from Key West to the Arctic. 

Nebraska ranchers fight construction of new 345,000-volt transmission line through the sparsely populated Sandhills region.

The plan was to stand and deliver. I would carry a briefcase. I would enter the classroom for the first time, naïve and optimistic, only to find my students wearing black leather jackets and casually flicking their Zippos. 

My girlfriend and I wanted to spend time on the road, just the two of us in a 1968 FAN camper trailer. But first we had to get it out of my dad’s yard.

Dad doesn’t understand me anymore, so he volunteered us both for the last remaining slots on the Python Patrol. 

Once all but forgotten, writer Ervin D. Krause, the son of a Midwestern tenant farmer, ranked among the best short story writers in the country in the early 1960s. 

That’s right: I’m talking about Oilbirds (Steatornis caripensis), the only nocturnal, fruit-eating birds in the world!

British naturalist John Lister-Kaye creates an anthem for the wilderness, and cautions against a warming planet.

In his new memoir, James Rebanks exposes the primal relationship a shepherd has with the land.

A bill in Nebraska designed to establish a lower minimum wage for student workers aged 18 and younger broke a filibuster and advanced through two rounds of debate before finally dying on the floor of the nonpartisan unicameral Legislature. 

The journalist on the myriad ills of the meat trade, the plight of migrant workers, and the twin missions of journalism and poetry.

Author David Gessner on Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the notion of going “properly wild.”

Warner—built like a refrigerator and sheathed in tattoos—is the proud owner of Wink’s Bar, a 200-square-foot diner in downtown Richmond, a tin-can rendezvous for townies and transients, gear heads and grad students, artists and accountants alike.

On a mission to find an elusive mammal, William deBuys imparts stunning details about Laos's fading wilderness.

When organisms flee their native habitats in search of more amenable climates, they expose themselves to pathogens they’ve never encountered — and to which they haven’t developed a resistance. Human activities only serve to accelerate this process, Brooks says, scattering organisms across the planet at an unprecedented rate.

In 2007, a group of students at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln fought to establish the first satirical newspaper on the campus. Eight years and nearly 70 issues later, the paper still hits the newsstand every other week. 

In her latest collection of personal essays, The Unspeakable and Other Subjects of Discussion, author Meghan Daum toys with that notion of transformation. She finds varying degrees of success, sometimes approaching the pivot only to swing back to the starting line, sometimes barely shifting at all, and sometimes crossing over completely, wrapping the essay with a bow-tie revelation.

He’s coming closer now, his shoelaces trailing like alley cats behind him. I’d rather not speak to this man; I’d rather duck his gaze and sprint for the exit.

Showbiz unions organized a rally against legislation introduced in the state legislature.