The saga of the Klamath provokes a more fundamental, yet often ignored, set of questions: What is a river for? Irrigation?

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Stephen Macedo is Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics at Princeton University and coauthor, with Frances Lee, of In Covid’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us.