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This week on New Mexico in Focus, senior producer Lou Divizio and journalist Shaun Griswold consider what's next for Indigenous communities as the nation braces for a second Trump administration. In an interview that first aired on Indigenous Peoples’...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, Executive Producer Jeff Proctor speaks with the legal and policy directors from the ACLU of New Mexico about what a second Trump administration could mean for civil rights protections in our state. In their two-part...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, KUNM’s Megan Kamerick speaks with two computer science experts about their work pushing elected officials to create privacy guardrails on artificial intelligence. In this two-part interview, Santa Fe Institute Professor...

This week on NewMexico in Focus, Executive Producer Jeff Proctor sits down with a journalism professor and a criminal defense lawyer to consider what's next for the Albuquerque Journal, following the arrest and jailing of its executive editor after a...

This week, New Mexico in Focus explores the history of Labor Day and the state of labor in New Mexico in 2024.   Senior Producer Lou DiVizio sits down with University of New Mexico Professor Jason Scott Smith as he explains the roots of the holiday and...

For seven years on NMPBS, “Our Land: New Mexico’s Environmental Past, Present, and Future” has covered so many aspects of climate change: from the oil and gas industry’s greenhouse gas emissions to how human-caused warming affects our rivers, forests,...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, a group of New Mexico Black community leaders and elders tell us about the importance of celebrating Juneteenth. In the first of three conversations, Senior Producer Lou DiVizio asks Joe and Rita Powdrell about the roots...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, Source New Mexico Editor Shaun Griswold speaks with state Indian Affairs Secretary Josett Monette about the cap removal at Farmington High that sparked local and national outrage. Monette shares her reaction to the viral...

If we treat landscapes and rivers with a sense of respect and reciprocity, what do we learn? And how do we then treat ecosystems and human communities differently? That's what we consider on this special episode of "Our Land"   NMiF airs on NMPBS...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, Our Land’s Laura Paskus sits down for a two-part discussion with Arturo Sandoval, one of the organizers of the first Earth Day in 1970. In the first half of their conversation, Sandoval tells us about his role in putting...