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What If Native Americans Had Gotten Their Own State? March 12, 2025

In McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020), the Supreme Court rejected Oklahoma's attempt to prosecute crimes committed on a reservation by an Indian. Henceforth, the tribe, not the state, would have jurisdiction over Indian crimes on Indian lands. It was such a w...

Moon Should Be a State December 04, 2024

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of celestial bodies. “America’s done expanding” is the implicit rule. Our nation’s finished cooking, and the future looks like this forever (or maybe just a little smaller). It’s impossible for us to grow, and if it’s n...