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Who’s your favorite American? We asked a range of luminaries, and the answers included scientists, playwrights, pop stars, bureaucrats—and one…
Misophonia Fireworks
Kyle Bravo illustrates a humorous take on fireworks, now with even shorter fuses!
The Met’s “Costume Art” Makes a Case for Fashion
From its new galleries off the museum’s Great Hall, the Costume Institute seeks to put clothing at the center of…
How to Celebrate America’s 250th Birthday
Also: Rachel Syme on the return of Day-Glo.
Donald Trump Celebrates America’s Two-Hundred-and-Fiftieth Birthday
At the Great American State Fair, in Washington, D.C., and at the opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Library, in North…
The Intimate Legacies of a White-Supremacist Coup
Lauren Collins on a white-supremacist coup and a violent riot targeting the Black community of Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898.
The Unprecedented Profiteering Revealed by Donald Trump’s Financial Disclosure
David D. Kirkpatrick writes that the President cashed in on his office to the tune of billions of dollars in…
Why The Last Battle of the American Revolution Was Fought In India
The conflicts elsewhere in the world have receded from our imagination, but the American rebellion was a sideshow to a…
The U.S. Men’s Soccer Team Is Rewriting Its History
Louisa Thomas writes about the U.S. men’s national soccer team’s win against Bosnia and Herzegovina during the knockout phase of…
Why Have Liberals Abandoned a Moral Reading of the Constitution?
From slavery to abortion, conservatives and liberals alike have reached for “natural law” to resolve many of the country’s most…