One of the central complaints of the cracker terrorists currently holed up at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon is about “government overreach...” By Katie Herzog. (Jan. 6)

Ammon Bundy and his band of weeping, self-pitying, gun-toting, wannabe-terrorist metrosexuals are America's most ridiculous people. By Matt Taibbi. (Jan. 7)

The conservative path to today’s land-use fervor. By Alan Feuer. (Jan. 10)

Its roots in our politics are deep and tangled. By Charles P. Pierce. (Jan. 3)

A master class in the movement to take public lands for private gain.

Even if ranchers still come into conflict with government agencies, their problems don’t explain those of Harney County. (Jan. 14)

In Oregon, an armed occupation of Malheur Wildlife Refuge headquarters is being led by self-proclaimed “patriots” from Nevada. They are defending a public lands ranching family’s “right” to set fires… (Jan. 8)

Armed white men seizing the headquarters of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon on January 2, 2016, were repeating a history longer than anyone has yet noted. (Jan. 8)

"The protesters have no right to this land. It belongs to the native people who live here." (Jan. 6) [Autoplay video]

The armed militia members occupying a federally owned wildlife outpost in eastern Oregon have demanded that the land be "returned" to them. But who really has claim to this forest? (Jan. 5)

Let's take it back to the 18th Century. ​By Robert Bateman. (Jan. 7)

They include a former staff sergeant and a border-control activist. By Robert Bateman. (Jan. 4)

You probably already know that an armed gang has taken over a federal building at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Oregon. According to Ammon Bundy, one of the leaders of the group, the so-called "militia men" are... By Sydney Brownstone. (Jan. 4)

The feds are taking a calculated approach to the ongoing standoff in Oregon. (Jan. 4)

Much ink has been spilled amount United States v. Hammond, the federal criminal prosecution cited by militia members as one of the motivations for taking over a federal facility in Oregon. The increased sentence imposed on the Hammonds has been cited as a sign of government abuse. But... By Ken White. (Jan. 4)

Some of the same armed “militia” involved in the Cliven Bundy affair in Nevada have occupied federal land in Oregon formerly reserved for the Northern Paiute. By Steve Russell. (Jan. 3)

Ammon Bundy decries federal "tyranny," but he sought aid from the government to help his company. By Russ Choma, (Jan. 4)

It starts with a deer hunting trip gone wrong. By Daniel Rivero. (Jan. 5)

A militia protesting the "tyranny" of the federal government seized the headquarters of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon on Saturday and, in a video posted to Facebook, called on "patriots" from all over the country to come to the refuge with their guns to join their fight. By Jennifer Williams. (Jan. 5)

Police say Kenneth Medenbach drove the vehicle to town from the Malheur national wildlife refuge – and it’s not his first tangle with the law, (Jan. 15)

The "Y'all Qaeda" militia is short on people, supplies and food. By Tim Dickinson. (Jan, 5)

The occupiers at Malheur are seeking to overturn vital federal land management and environmental protection. By John Nichols. (Jan. 4)

In the high desert of central Oregon, lies Harney County, a site of a long-festering and intense confrontation between federal officials and the militant property rights movement... By Jeffrey St. Clair and James Ridgeway. (Jan. 5)

A federal judge rejected mandatory minimums for Dwight and Steven Hammond as unconstitutional; an appeals court disagreed. (Jan. 4)

Times were once good in east-central Oregon, where armed protesters took over a federal wildlife sanctuary, but the population grew ever poorer as opportunities dried up.