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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Tim Miller is joined Jared Poland and Brendan Hartnett after they spent time at Trump's "Great American State Fair" on the ...

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, ...

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.

SCOTUS rejected his brazen constitutional gambit—but cleared the way for potentially the largest revocation of legal ...

Not only did Trump pocket $2.2 billion last year—vastly increasing his pre-presidency wealth—he shamelessly showed off his ...