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Exhibit A: Ammon and Ryan Bundy and five of their followers, charged in the armed takeover of a federally owned Oregon wildlife sanctuary in January, were acquitted Thursday of federal conspiracy and weapons charges. The verdict brings to a close a case that gripped the...
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Cowboy Socialism

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On February 1, 2016
While the Bundy boys and their band of idiots are mostly in jail or have left the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, there are still a few diehards holed up in there. I do worry about these people committing acts of violence, on their own and...

Water Politics

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On January 13, 2016

This is a really outstanding investigation into how California and thus federal water politics work. That agribusiness would create a Latino front group with the message that not delivering more.

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Dam Removal

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On December 5, 2015
I realize that most LGM readers don't spend a lot of time thinking about western natural resource politics. But these issues are central to understanding the politics of the West, particularly within the Republican Party. Western Republicans carry most of the greed, fear-mongering, and racism...

Rain Barrels

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On June 15, 2015

That collecting rainwater on your own property in barrels remains illegal in Colorado is a great entry point into the complex and extraordinarily contentious water politics of the West, where.

The Civil War in the West

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On May 16, 2015
Adam Arenson and Virginia Scharff, who was my dissertation advisor, on the end of the Civil War in the West: But looking at the war from the West is an important perspective. From the West, the Civil War appeared as merely the greatest in a...

Richard Maxwell Brown, RIP

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On January 2, 2015

Richard Maxwell Brown, the nation's preeminent historian of violence, former president of the Western History Association, and my undergraduate honors' thesis advisor, died in September, seemingly without other historians knowing..

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