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Reader Comments: Swing State Confidential; Ta-Nehisi Coates - A Letter from Israel; Palestine-The Last Year; While You Were So Worried Socialism Would Take Your Freedoms...; CIA Says No Evidence Iran Has Decided To Build a Nuclear Weapon; more...

Project 2025 and Its Plans for the Nation’s Public Lands

Stephanie Woodard Barn Raiser
If Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wins in November, his next administration comes armed with plans for a massive deregulation of federally-owned public land—your land, our land, the basis of our shared national identity.

Silencing the Voice

Amy Bachrach Portside
This January 26 was the first “Australia Day” following October's defeat of landmark constitutional referendum recognizing Australia’s first nations people by enshrining in the Constitution an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament

The Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples

Aviva Chomsky TomDispatch
On the 30th anniversary of the UN declaration of Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, we need to get beyond stereotypes, from Colombia to the United States to Gaza

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How German Atheists Made America Great Again

S. C. Gwynne New York Times
What was the Civil War about? In a word, slavery. The driving force in American politics in the decades after the American Revolution was the rise of an arrogant, ruthless, parasitic oligarchy in the South, built on God-ordained economic inequality.
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