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This Week in American History: How to Say Goodbye to a King
Our weekly history missive comes to an end 250 years to the week that a statue of King George III met its end in New York City.
Jonathan Horn
Two Nations, Under Trump and Mamdani
On America’s 250th birthday, Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani painted radically different portraits of the country. Both missed what makes it truly…
Liel Leibovitz
America’s Next 250 Years Are Ours to Build
In 1776, there was no electricity, no anesthesia, and no running water. The Founders still built something that changed the world. What comes next is up…
Scott Nolan
The Greatest Country on Earth
The Free Press celebrates America’s 250th anniversary.
The Free Press
Why We Love This Country
Bari Weiss on risk. Nellie Bowles on air-conditioning. Douglas Murray on our vast wilderness. And more.
The Free Press
Nikki Haley: We Are Blessed to Live in America
When I read the speech Calvin Coolidge gave on America’s 150th birthday, I hear the same truth my parents brought with them from India: We are so very…
Nikki Haley
Rod Dreher: My American Homecoming
I spent four years living in Hungary. After coming home to the Deep South, I remember why America, for all its faults, is still home.
Rod Dreher
The Summer I Turned Patriot
Like many Europeans raised on a diet of American culture, I thought I understood the United States. My job as a camp counselor revealed why it is a…
Josh Kaplan
Americans Think Race Relations Are Getting Worse
We asked the public about fairness in our latest edition of The Honesty Project. It turns out America is divided in some unexpected ways.
Mene Ukueberuwa
Rod Dreher: What I Learned in Hungary
Orbán’s Hungary was neither the semi-fascist state its critics claimed, nor the model its admirers imagined. After four years living the experiment, I…
Rod Dreher
What Do Americans Think When No One Is Watching?
It is core to The Free Press to understand America as it actually is. That work depends in part on understanding what Americans actually believe.
The Editors
Introducing: The Honesty Project
We’re asking Americans what they really believe.
Mene Ukueberuwa
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