Jon Simkins is a writer, editor and photographer based in the Washington, D.C. area. He covers national security, the outdoors, conservation, underserved communities and the individual stories that comprise each.

jsimkinsmedia@gmail.com

Features

Japanese faces, American hearts—Their own country questioned their loyalty in the wake of Pearl Harbor. They silenced all doubts

‘Who gets to profit off our culture?’ Indigenous designers are growing platforms for change

Renewal on the river: Fly fishing, survival and recharged perspective with Eduardo Garcia

Veterans who once sought ‘hearts and minds’ in Afghanistan must now mend their own

‘The Things They Carried’ author Tim O’Brien on his life’s work, trauma & confronting mortality

Fate of wild horses in limbo as overgrazing, drought decimate the West

‘Everyone is going to die … no need to get anxious about it’ — inside the Chatan murder no one predicted

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