Selling the Soil, Scrubbing the Story
How Congress Is Auctioning Public Lands While Rewriting the Story of Who We Are
As the U.S. nears its 250th birthday, what should be a moment of national reflection is instead turning into a reckoning with how the country’s memory, land, and truth are being quietly but systematically stripped away.
The Senate has just revived and expanded a controversial plan to sell off up to 3 million acres of federal land—deserts, forests, wetlan…



