The true story of ‘Kid Nation,’ the wildest reality-TV show ever made (From the archives)

By Mitch Moxley · Esquire · 2026

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"A Bush-era reality-TV experiment dropped a bunch of children in the desert, then let the cameras roll. Years later, all of a sudden, the Internet got obsessed."

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