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

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Trump's vow to give a "really long" July 4th speech in extreme heat, the "threesome" medal moment in North Dakota, and Tim's ...