Deanne Stillman is a best-selling author whose latest book is American Confidential: Uncovering the Bizarre Story of Lee Harvey Oswald and His Mother. She is also the author of Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West.
Custer’s last stand was 150 years ago. As America wrestles with its 250th birthday, this commemoration also cuts to the heart of who we are.
The 47th president has smashed norms, enriched himself, and even bungled cleaning the Reflecting Pool. But July 4 still survives.
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July 4 is America’s birthday and the first anniversary of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act and the health care cuts that followed.
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The history of semicentennial American presidential oratory is limited, but Donald Trump’s upcoming semiquincentennial remarks are destined to mark a low point in the canon.
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The majority upholds state bans on trans athletes, sidelinging key evidence, scientific fact, and its own logic upholding trans rights in employment.
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Primary upsets in Maine, New York, and Colorado show a Democratic base furious over Trump, Israel, and elite impunity.
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An excellent report on Trump’s raiding of its funds to pay for his gaudy, gold-leaf D.C. makeover.
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Much of the press believed the 2022-25 spike in egg prices was mere supply and demand. Now that the industry has settled with DOJ and state AGs, our suspicions proved warranted.
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