Revisionist History: The Staten Island Problem · 2026-08-27 · 39 min · 5,332 words

Merciless Indian Savages | First America

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Right now we are living through some of the most tumultuous political times our country has ever known. I'm David Remnick, and each week on the New Yorker Radio Hour, I'll try to make sense of what's happening. Alongside politicians and thinkers like Cory Booker, Nancy Pelosi, Liz Cheney, Tim Waltz, Katanji Brown Jackson, New Gingrich, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Charlemagne the God. And so many more.

That's all on the New Yorker radio hour. Wherever you listen to podcasts. First game. There's a sentence in the Declaration of Independence that almost no one talks about. It's the last grievance, the climax.

The thing the founders were most angry about. And it isn't about taxes. Or representation. Like we've been told. It's about Native Americans.

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