The Nightmare of Despotism
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Hamilton feared the mob Jefferson warned against unchecked elites But both thought that the republic could fall
We Hold These Turkeys to Be Delicious
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What the Founding Fathers ateand drankon July 4 1777
Whose Independence
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The question of what Jefferson meant by all men has defined American law and politics for too long
The Moral Foundation of America
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The idea that everyone has intrinsic rights to life and liberty was a radical break with millennia of human history Its worth preserving
The 27th Grievance
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How Native nations shaped the Revolution
The Gaza War Isnt Over Yet But It Could Be Soon
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Trump may have ended the Gaza hostage crisis Can he end the Gaza war
Retribution Is Here
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The presidents threats of revenge are no longer bluster
This Is the Week the Government Shutdown Gets Real
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on 10/8/25 at 6:30pm
Airport delays and IRS closures are just the beginning
Politicians Arent Cool Enough to Curse This Much
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on 10/8/25 at 5:43pm
Political leaders once watched their language Now they delight in using obscenity
Bari Weiss Still Thinks It's 2020
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on 10/8/25 at 1:30pm
She co-founded The Free Press as a bastion of liberalism in an illiberal time Her arrival at CBS is paved with excuses for illiberal friends
Bring Back High-Stakes School Testing
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Former Education Secretary Margaret Spellings on testing accountability and how to reverse the decade-long decline in US student achievement...
Pam Bondi Loyal Servant
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on 10/8/25 at 8:18am
At a congressional oversight hearing yesterday the attorney general followed her north star pleasing the president
What Not to Fix About Baseball
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on 10/8/25 at 8:00am
In a new book the sportswriter Jane Leavy spitballs with some of the greats about how to make the American pastime more appealing
The Atlantic presents special issue The Unfinished Revolution
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Featuring 21 pieces by leading scholars essayists and reporters on the history and lessons of Americas founding era
The Worst Way to Cut Government Spending
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The Trump administration is culling the best and brightest from the federal workforce for a rounding errors worth in savings
The Myth of Mad King George
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He was denounced by rebel propagandists as a tyrant and remembered by Americans as a reactionary dolt Who was he really
No One Gave a Speech Like Patrick Henry
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How he roused a nation to war
Why Concord
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The geological origins of the American Revolution
The American Experiment
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At 250 the Revolutions goals remain noble and indispensable
How Do You Film the Revolution
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What we learned making a documentary about a war so distant in time
How the Revolution Tore Apart the Franklin Family
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William Franklin remained loyal to the Crown Benjamin his father never forgave him for it
The Black Loyalists
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Thousands of African Americans fought for the Britishthen fled the United States to avoid a return to enslavement
Into the Breeches
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What it takes to be a Revolutionary War reenactor
Behind The Atlantics November 2025 Issue Cover
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Capturing the Revolutionary Era in its complexity contradictions and ingenuity Plus A guide to the figures
The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here
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on 10/7/25 at 5:46pm
The leaders of the US military may soon face a terrible decision