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Over the last few weeks a growing number of people have started wondering, "Is it possible the United States is heading for a new civil war?" Granted, most of those people are writers for sites like Russia Today or the Huffington Post, and thus slightly less credible than a handful of Bazooka Joe gum wrapper comics. But Donald Trump has made a few tinpot dictator-ish statements recently. By Robert Evans.

What happened at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge earlier this year was no whodunit. By Matt Pearce.

Standoff leaders Ammon and Ryan Bundy and five others were charged with conspiring to impede federal workers from their jobs at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. By Hal Bernton.

A writer finds camaraderie and despair inside the Oregon standoff. By Hal Herring.

’But officer, this is a sovereign truck!’ By Doktor Zoom.

The owners of a Montana gold mine sent a letter to the U.S. Forest Service earlier this month warning its employees to stay off the owners' property. By Catherine Thompson.