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Working Around HIPAA
By Nate Hegyi
Hospitals may view their primary role as helping those injured or sick, but regulations aimed at protecting patient privacy also create significant...
Native Secrets
By Santee Ross
I learned from an early age that secrets are an essential part of your social status. A secret could mean the difference...
Preaching to the Choir
By Stephanie Parker
When it comes to keeping secrets, few do it better than the CIA. But this summer, the agency voluntarily released a few...
Finding th3j35t3r
By Brett Bernsten
The Jester marks every attack with a calling card tweet: TANGO DOWN. It announced his takedown of the Taliban’s website. It leered...
Privacy Betrayed
By Albert Borgmann
There was a time when privacy promoted prosperity. Then, prosperity promoted privacy. Now privacy struggles with prosperity and is losing.
The Constitution’s Fourth...
Facebook Confessionals
By Conrad Scheid
The Internet has never been known as the best way to keep a secret, but it sure holds some mysteries. Take one...
After Jaffe
By McHugh Pierre
For eight years Missoula politicos closely followed city Councilman Bob Jaffe’s much anticipated weekly digest of council and committee meetings. But 2014...
Behind the Times
By Dustin Nelson
The fact that gay couples can now file federal taxes jointly is not enough to get Ray Davis and Jason Templin to...
Concealed Weapons, Secret Identities
By Jackson Bolstad
Montanans who have obtained a concealed weapons permit can do more than hide a handgun in their jackets — they can keep...
Hank Green’s YouTube Success
Story by Hank Green, illustration by James A. Rolph
Before YouTube paid his bills, before he planned internationally attended conferences — before he had fans...
Standing Rock: Native journalists torn between passion and neutrality
Story by Jason Begay, photos by Olivia Vanni
See more of MJR's Standing Rock Coverage with this interactive web documentary.
Even if it weren’t for that...
The Bouldering Boom of Western Montana
By Zeno Wicks
The Bitterroot Mountains on the border of Montana and Idaho have been a longtime secret of western climbers.
Since 1970, hundreds of long...