The Complexity of Landownership in the United States

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The United States is one of the few countries in the world where there have not been state owned companies. The ownership of land must be something that has to do with the way the U.S. was shaped as a nation, says Peter Bergen. It's like the basic organization of American settler colonialism," he adds.

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