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Opinion | Why America Is a ‘Creedal Nation’
[ad_1] Democracy is a powerful and dangerous force, as America and the European democracies are discovering. Elites on both sides of the Atlantic haven’t…
Tag: American history
New York, New York Local News
How Historically Accurate Is Death by Lightning?
[ad_1] Death by Lightning overdoes the depiction of James Garfield as a sort of Cincinnatus called from the fields to save his country. Perhaps…
Orlando, Florida Local News
West Point restores Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s portrait
[ad_1] A painting of Gen. Robert E. Lee dressed in his Confederate uniform is back on display in West Point’s library, several years after…
New York, New York Local News
Trump Sees Whitewashed U.S. Past and Dystopian Present
[ad_1] Photo: Eric Lee/Bloomberg/Getty Images There’s something increasingly strange about Donald Trump’s ongoing — indeed, intensifying — campaign to demand the sunniest possible view…
Orlando, Florida Local News
Think you know American government? Try Florida’s civic literacy test
[ad_1] “Whose philosophic principles inspired the Declaration of Independence?” “Which form of government is based on popular sovereignty?” “Which legislation reflects federal efforts to…
Politics
The Dead-Enders of the Reagan-Era GOP
[ad_1] For those of us who very much want to see Donald Trump defeated in November by the widest possible margin, the news on…
Politics
Political Accountability Isn’t Dead Yet
[ad_1] On September 22, when federal prosecutors accused Senator Robert Menendez of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes, Representative Andy Kim, a…
Bazaar News
WTF Fun Fact 13665 – US Time Zones
[ad_1] In the early days of American history, the concept of time was not as unified as it is today. With over a hundred…
Politics
A War on Blue America
[ad_1] During his term in the White House, Donald Trump governed as a wartime president—with blue America, rather than any foreign country, as the…
Politics
The Specter of Family Separation
[ad_1] Almost as soon as Donald Trump took office in 2017, agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement were dispatched across the country to round…
Politics
How John F. Kennedy Fell for the Lost Cause
[ad_1] John F. Kennedy took George Plimpton by surprise after a dinner party one evening when he pulled his friend aside for a word…
Politics
A Final Chapter Unbefitting an Extraordinary Legacy
[ad_1] Senator Dianne Feinstein, who died last night at 90, braved one of the most remarkable political expeditions in American history—and also one of…
Politics
The Impossible Task of Muzzling Donald Trump
[ad_1] When Donald Trump appeared last week in a Washington, D.C., courtroom for his arraignment on federal election charges, the presiding judge gave the…
Politics
The Humiliation of Donald Trump
[ad_1] He shuffled quietly into the courtroom and took his seat at the defense table. He looked strangely small sitting there flanked by lawyers—his…
Politics
A Rare Reprieve From the Permanent Presidential Campaign
[ad_1] Does anyone want to be president? Typically, by the time a president delivers the State of the Union address at the start of…
Politics
How Democrats Avoided a Red Wave
[ad_1] The coalition of voters who turned out to oppose Donald Trump in 2018 and 2020 largely reassembled yesterday, frustrating Republican expectations of a…
Politics
Why Politics Has Become So Stressful
[ad_1] No matter which party wins control of the House and Senate next month, the results are virtually certain to reinforce the paradox powering…
Politics
The Inevitable Indictment of Donald Trump
[ad_1] As an appellate judge, Merrick Garland was known for constructing narrow decisions that achieved consensus without creating extraneous controversy. As a government attorney,…
Politics
Caitlin Dickerson on the Moral Catastrophe of Family Separations
[ad_1] Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic’s editor in chief, joined staff writer Caitlin Dickerson to discuss her cover story, a years-long investigation into the secret…
Politics
‘Stop the Steal’ Is a Metaphor
[ad_1] Starting in 2008, a widely circulated conspiracy theory was that Barack Obama was not actually born in America. Strivers on the political right…