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GUEST: Zoë Carpenter, The Nation’s assistant Washington editor. She worked previously for Rolling Stone, and has appeared on MSNBC, CNN, and other media outlets. She recently wrote Inside the Bundy Brothers’ Armed Occupation.

By now the group of armed white militants led by Ammon Bundy that took over a wildlife refuge in Oregon has become yet one more source of global ridicule of the US. Social media hashtags have skewered the group. And even famed author Ursula K Le Guin has published a widely shared letter to a newspaper calling them “a flock of Right-Winged Loonybirds infesting the refuge.” At a community meeting earlier this week, local residents, increasingly frustrated, directed their anger at government officials and Bundy and his ilk.

Read Zoë Carpenter’s article here: http://www.thenation.com/article/inside-the-malheur-wildlife-refuge-occupation/.