This comprehensive documentary history examines the systematic destruction of Indigenous peoples in what is now the United States from 1492 to the 20th century. Through detailed regional analyses, population data, survivor testimony, and historical records, the document chronicles how an estimated 5-8 million Indigenous people were reduced to 250,000 by 1900—a 95-97% population decline.
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Statewide TB Outbreak Shows What Happens When Public Health is Dismantled
In early 2025, Kansas became the epicenter of one of the worst tuberculosis outbreaks in recent American history—an outcome both shocking and entirely predictable. With at least 67 active and 79 latent cases, including children, the crisis has exposed a deeply fractured public health system gutted by years of legislative sabotage, professional hesitation, and a culture that mistakes defiance for freedom. Drawing on the ideological themes of What’s the Matter with Kansas, this investigation traces the origins of the outbreak through policy failures, community apathy, and medical inaction—laying bare how anti-science fervor, vaccine resistance, and erosion of public trust created the perfect conditions for an entirely preventable tragedy.
The Comey Pattern: Examining Extraordinary Prosecutorial Actions Against Prominent Women
When James Comey prosecuted Martha Stewart in 2003 using what legal scholars called an "audacious legal theory," and when he made unprecedented public interventions in the Hillary Clinton email investigation in 2016, he claimed to be upholding institutional integrity. But a comprehensive examination of court records, Inspector General reports, and expert analysis reveals a troubling pattern: Comey's most aggressive and procedurally irregular actions have disproportionately targeted high-profile women, generating enormous reputational damage regardless of legal outcomes. From the novel securities fraud charge against Stewart—later dismissed by a judge—to the "extraordinary and insubordinate" press conferences and letters about Clinton that violated Justice Department norms, Comey's decisions in these cases drew sustained criticism from legal experts across the political spectrum. The Department of Justice Inspector General found that Comey's handling of the Clinton investigation included "inappropriate commentary about uncharged conduct" and represented departures from "well-established department policies" for which he offered no "persuasive basis." This investigation examines whether Comey's most controversial prosecutorial decisions reveal a pattern of disproportionate intensity, extraordinary publicity, and institutional norm violations that consistently affected prominent women—raising fundamental questions about equality before the law and the appropriate use of prosecutorial discretion.
Trump’s 2025 Deportation Architecture and the Unlearned Lesson of the Removal Act
Expedited removal is the twenty‑first‑century descendant of the Indian Removal Act: a policy engineered for speed, distance, and silence. When a government normalizes exile without a hearing, it is not testing the margins of due process—it is erasing them, and the targets keep expanding until the line between non‑citizen and citizen turns to vapor.
Doha to Kabul. How the 2020 U.S.–Taliban Agreement Set the Stage for Afghanistan’s Collapse
The collapse of Afghanistan in August 2021 is often framed as a singular failure of the Biden administration, but the record shows a far more complex lineage. Under the 2020 Doha Agreement, the Trump administration negotiated directly with the Taliban while excluding the Afghan government, committed to a rapid U.S. withdrawal without enforceable conditions, and orchestrated a dramatic reduction in American forces. These decisions—combined with the release of 5,000 Taliban prisoners, the closure of key U.S. airbases, and a refusal to share transition briefings with the incoming administration—left the United States with shrinking leverage and diminished capacity to execute a safe, orderly exit. This feature examines the documented diplomatic, military, and political choices that shaped the withdrawal trajectory, grounding each claim in primary-source evidence from inspector general reports, Pentagon testimony, and contemporaneous news accounts. The result is a clearer view of how policy choices made between 2018 and 2021 directly constrained the final months of the U.S. presence and shaped the outcome on the ground.