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America at 250
Where Democracy Still Works
In taverns, classrooms, libraries, and flood-stricken towns, neighbors are quietly practicing the everyday cooperation that keeps the American…
Colleen Shogan
One Immigrant Boy’s Journey from Cuba to the CIA
How did a clueless boy from Havana end up in the most exclusive club in the country? I answered an ad in the newspaper.
Martin Gurri
Illegally Yours, Keith McNally
Before Balthazar, before my Green Card, before I had any success at all—New York showed me that charm and nerve could beat out class and pedigree.
Keith McNally
What the Bathroom at Balthazar Taught Me About America
I came to this country looking for fortune. Instead, I found belonging in a place most people never bother to look.
Cheikhou Niane
Meet America’s Newest Citizens
At a naturalization ceremony in Tucson this month, new Americans told us what taking the oath feels like.
Tanya Lukyanova and Austyn Jeffs
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Americans to Celebrate: The Prophet of the Atomic Age
John von Neumann, the Hungarian immigrant who invented game theory and shaped America’s nuclear strategy, also believed the technologies he developed…
Jordan Ellenberg
Why America Is Shutting the Door on Immigration—Again
Twice before, America all but halted the influx of migrants. Restriction brought stability and allowed assimilation, the essential condition of…
Christopher Caldwell
Tyler Cowen: Why ‘Humane’ Immigration Policy Ends in Cruelty
If you are pro-immigration, you have a small number of choices, all of them unpleasant.
Tyler Cowen
Things Worth Remembering: The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
The crossed-out words and penciled-in phrases in the early drafts of the Declaration of Independence tell a story of how our core principles were…
Walter Isaacson
America Is Broken—Walter Isaacson Wants to Fix It
Thirty-five words shaped our nation in 1776. Can they heal it in 2025?
Rafaela Siewert
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How the Country I Was Taught to Hate Saved My Life
A judge has sentenced the hitman Iran sent to kill me on American soil. It’s proof that the country where I sought refuge protects the freedoms I love.
Masih Alinejad
America at 250: Our Technological Revolution
Katherine Boyle on FAFO as a founding principle, Marc Levinson on the steel box that built capitalism, Noah Smith on the new Luddites—and Palmer Luckey…
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