An excerpt from This Land is My Land: A graphic history of big dreams, micronations, and self-made states.
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20 Years Later, Columbine Is The Spectacle the Shooters Wanted (2019)
Searching for meaning in the shooters’ infamous “basement tapes.”
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Who Wants to Live Forever?
Silicon Valley tries to disrupt death.
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We’ve Seen This All Before
Our recent actions at the border are nothing new – America has been doing this to immigrants for generations.
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Dark Arts: How Cambridge Analytica Used Facebook to Find Out Who You Are
How a Facebook quiz you took in 2014 resulted in your data in the hands of people like Steve Bannon.
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Socialism: As American As Apple Pie
After a long exile, Socialism is re-entering the mainstream.
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They’ve Always Been Watching Us
From COINTELPRO to the NSA, the US Government has been keeping a close watch on the American Left for a long time.
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Afghanistan’s Long War
(From 2017) The war in Afghanistan is the US’s longest ever. But the conflict there is decades older.
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ISIS And The Middle East’s Vanishing Religious Minorities
One of the most religiously diverse places on Earth is undergoing a massive shift.
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Why Tensions Might Finally Be Boiling Over in North Korea
North and South Korea never signed any treaties at the end of the Korean War. And it just gets worse from there.
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