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America’s 250th birthday celebration is replacing history with toxic myth

This year’s events will be a mélange of Trumpian egotism, Maga populism and Christian nationalism

The Guardian - US

1776 All-Stars: Samuel Adams Was the Most Libertarian Founder

The libertarian rabble-rouser who helped ignite the American Revolution

Reason

Trumpiana: Who is the GOATest of them all?

Miffed at the Kennedy Center removing his name, Trump plasters his greatness everywhere!

The Times of India

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Brewery brings back George Washington’s beer recipe to celebrate 250 years of America

America’s first president recorded the recipe while he was serving as a colonel in the Virginia militia

The Independent UK

Native Americans Taught Colonists How To Fight—and To Live Without Kings

Unlike in Europe, native rulers had little formal authority; they had to persuade others to follow their ideas.

Reason

The Guardian view on Trump’s omnipresence: commanding attention like a king

Editorial: The president’s image and name are proliferating in Washington and beyond, overturning well-advised democratic taboos on glorifying sitting leaders

The Guardian - UK

Turns out America’s favorite villain may have been framed as historian gives King George III a makeover

King George inherited the throne in 1760 at age 22, overseeing an empire stretching across continents

The Independent UK

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MAGA fails to conquer arts and music

Trump’s losses at the Kennedy Center and Freedom 250 follow Turning Point USA’s Super Bowl humiliation

Salon

'Dumocracy' in America: When the President becomes a punchline

TOI correspondent from Washington: Historians may someday conclude that US President Donald Trump's greatest contribution to American political discourse was not immigration enforcement or peace treaty, or even a trade war. It may have been a painstaking seminar on how he coined the word "Dumocrats."

The Times of India

Jimmy Kimmel on Trump’s IQ test: ‘No president has had to have his brain examined this many times’

Late-night hosts discussed Trump’s cognitive faculties, his failed plans for a concert series and the rise of Spencer Pratt in the California primaries

The Guardian - US

How out-of-work fishermen saved the American Revolution

George Washington knew his forces could not win the American Revolutionary War without some measure of sea power. “It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day,” he later wrote in a letter, “that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it everything…

The Conversation

Flattery is the job in Trump's Cabinet

A New York Times review of hours of meetings found officials spend more time fawning than governing

Salon

1776 All-Stars: Benjamin Franklin Reminds Us To Just Do Things

Franklin was fundamentally an optimist, and his life reminds us that politics is not what really matters.

Reason

The Federal Government Botched the Bicentennial Too

There's a lesson laying there: Make it local, embrace the commercial, and ignore the president.

Reason

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Reason

Henry Clay's Deal That Was No Deal: How the Compromise of 1850 Deepened the Slavery Crisis

The Compromise of 1850 was really no compromise at all.

Reason

Introducing Reason's America 250 Issue

America was a bicentennial basketcase. For the sestercentennial, we're in shambles. But there are still many reasons to celebrate.

The Times of India

Mount Rushmore dream: Donald Trump shares AI-generated image of himself next to celebrated US Presidents

US President Donald Trump has reignited discussion over his place in American history after sharing an AI-generated image of himself carved alongside four former US presidents on Mount Rushmore, reviving a years-long push tied to his stated ambition of appearing on the national monument.

The Times of India

Trump's messy makeover reveals golden age of chaos

TOI correspondent from Washington: US President Donald Trump is facing growing questions about the coherence of his middle-east policy after claiming he has deliberately "spared" Iran's military, despite repeatedly declaring that US forces had already "decimated," and "obliterated," Iran's military capabilities.

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International Business Times UK

Trump Claims Average Americans Don't Know 'Dumb' Ends With a 'B' in Wild, Viral Rant

Donald Trump has been mocked online after telling Lara Trump that 'most people' do not know the word 'dumb' ends with a 'b,' while defending his new 'Dumocrats' insult.

Cinemablend

Nate Bargatze's Beloved George Washington SNL Sketch Did Not Go Well At The Table Read

If only Washington foresaw what would happen.

The Independent UK

Vanilla Ice breaks silence after several artists drop out of Trump’s Freedom 250 concert

‘I’m here to party with America, man,’ the ‘Ice Ice Baby’ singer said

Reason

Trump's Proposed $250 Bill Is Everything the Founders Despised

George Washington actively opposed the U.S. Mint putting his face on coinage, as it would've resembled the reverence reserved for monarchs.

The Economic Times

Treasury officials moot $250 note featuring Trump: Report

America may soon see a USD 250 currency note with President Donald Trump's portrait. This move requires a new law from Congress. Officials are preparing designs for the note. Trump's image is also planned for a gold coin. These initiatives coincide with celebrations for America's 250th anniversary.

International Business Times UK

'Boot Licker' Trend Erupts After Hegseth Compares Trump to Washington and Lincoln

Public disapproval of Donald Trump reaches 58%, while cabinet members lavish praise on him, sparking social media backlash. Critics question the sincerity and purpose of such commendations.

The Times of India

Quote of the day by George Washington: “Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be…”

Some advice survives because it sounds grand and dramatic. Other advice survives because people keep running into it in real life. This quote associated with George Washington feels closer to the second kind. It does not try to impress anyone with complicated language. It simply says something that many people…

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