Our country’s values, heroic figures, and moments of historic moral triumph provide all the tools and materials we need to ...

For months, legal experts have been expecting the Supreme Court to rule against Trump’s executive order that attempted to end birthright citizenship; those expectations were met earlier this week. I ...

It's hard to be in a celebratory mood about America 250. The administration only wants to tell a narrow story of the country without all the contradictions and complexities of its history. And for the ...

Nashville,’ ‘Dazed and Confused,’ and the bicentennial plus fifty.

We were fine. Maybe better than fine. We’d won the Cold War and reached the end of history, where liberalism was the inevitable conclusion of human affairs. Everything seemed good. We’d even elected a ...

Sarah Longwell and Bill Kristol (filling in for JVL) take on America’s 250th birthday under Trump—and how far the GOP has fallen from Reagan’s “you can become an American” to 2,000 ICE arrests a day.

What if John Adams had been told to let the adults in the Assembly Room in the Pennsylvania State House handle the volatile situation? What if, in other words, there had never been a United States of ...

This week I’m joined by CNN’s media analyst Brian Stelter to discuss the big news of the week, Comcast’s decision to spin NBC Universal off into a separate company. What will happen to the broadcast ...

Thank God for air conditioning, one of the greatest achievements of modern civilization. If this sounds obvious . . . well, ...

IN THE EARLY HOURS OF JUNE 8, Pizzagate conspiracy theorist Liz Crokin was hanging out in Venice, Florida with the niece and ...

When we read the Declaration of Independence this July 4th weekend, we’ll surely focus on its second paragraph, with its ...

THE FIRST JULY FOURTH I SPENT IN UNIFORM was also the one when I began to understand the significance of the day. On July 1, ...