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USA at 250: the Black American struggle for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, there is a tension between those who want to remember an uncomplicated past and those who would remember that freedom is a constant struggle. It’s a right that must be fought for and defended.

The Conversation

From Augustine to Jefferson, the idea of separating church and state has deep religious and secular roots

The Trump administration’s Religious Liberty Commission released its report on June 26, 2026, on the state of religious freedom in the United States, declaring it to be under attack.

The Conversation

Thomas Paine: The Founding Father Worth Celebrating

As America races toward its 250th birthday, Paine is the Founding Father to cast our lot with.

Reason

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America's 250th birthday has Elon Musk and a record IPO. Its 15th had Alexander Hamilton — and a stock market bubble

Dek: In 1791, a polarizing immigrant visionary sparked America's first stock bubble on the nation's 15th birthday. Is history rhyming, 235 years later?

Fortune

The forgotten Founding Father who said no to the Declaration of Independence

‘He wasn’t opposed to independence per se, but he thought it should happen gradually and without bloodshed,’ a historian said

The Independent UK

‘I wish he had done more to free enslaved people’: Thomas Jefferson’s descendant on his family’s complex legacy

Shannon LaNier, Jefferson’s sixth great-grandson, reflects on his lineage and the role of African Americans in the nation’s founding

The Guardian - US

How Trump hijacked America's birthday

This Fourth of July celebration is pointedly different from those marking previous milestones

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Thomas Jefferson’s legacy faces a new reckoning as America approaches its 250th birthday

America’s birth is rooted in his most profound contradiction — the man who proclaimed that “all men are created equal” while being a slaveholder to the end of his life

The Independent UK

Can the Supreme Court Slaughter Slaughter Without Cooking Cook?

Tensions between today's two major presidential removal power decisions.

Reason

The American Revolution Isn't Over

Washington’s troops won the ground war, but today's left and right are waging war on the ideals of the Revolution.

Reason

Donald Trump hijacked America’s 250 and turned it into a ‘theatre of the absurd’

Trump, laying siege to freedoms and truth itself, is twisting America’s milestone birthday into a joyless occasion

The Guardian - US

The American myth always came at someone’s expense. Now, it’s all but collapsed

The main pillars of the founding narrative have fallen on hard times. Today, its meaning is up for grabs

The Guardian - US

Trump commission calls for building bridges between church and state

The assertion comes amid a raft of recommendations in a draft report of the Religious Liberty Commission

The Independent UK

The US founders’ other revolutionary choice: Separating religion and government

Did the founders of the United States intend to create a Christian nation?

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I study the Declaration of Independence, and here’s why the colonists’ grievances are surprisingly relevant, 250 years later

The Declaration of Independence, with its block of cursive letters scrawled onto parchment, looks like a relic from the distant past. Likewise, you might think the 27 grievances against King George III, his government and the British people listed in the body of the document would have little relevance to…

Reason

Second Amendment Roundup: Gun Ban for Pot Users Unconstitutional

Supreme Court decides 9-0 that marijuana use per se fails to support firearm prohibition.

The Times of India

Renaissance proverb of the day: 'I find that the harder I work...' - a powerful reminder that luck is something you earn

Think about two people starting out in the same field. Same city, same opportunities, roughly the same starting point. A few years later, one of them seems to keep catching breaks. The right project lands in their lap. The right person calls at the right time. Things just seem to…

Reason

1776 All-Stars: Why George Mason Is Extremely Underrated

I'm not saying that just because I teach at the university named after him.

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FIFA’s Haiti jersey ban echoes the long campaign to discredit and downplay the Haitian Revolution

Ahead of its first match in the 2026 World Cup, the Haitian national soccer team was forced to make a last-minute change. But it didn’t have anything to do with its roster or travel plans. It was the team’s jersey.

Reason

Disillusioned Revolutionaries: Many Founders Died in Despair About the American Experiment

America's Founders helped create a world they were not yet ready to live in.

Reason

Gordon Wood's Enduring Defense of the American Revolution

Plus: When tattoos meet copyright law

Reason

1776 All-Stars: Why Thomas Jefferson Is the Most Fascinating Founder

The author of the Declaration of Independence may have written "the greatest sentence ever."

The Independent UK

Gordon S. Wood, eminent scholar of the American Revolution, dead at 92

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S

Reason

The Pentagon's New War - Canceling American Religion and American History

A guest post by Prof. Paul Finkelman.

The Independent UK

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood dead at age 92 after being hit by car in store parking lot

President Obama presented him a National Humanities Medal in 2011

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