Fourth of July

Commitment to liberalism once distinguished the U.S. Now, it’s the disdain of elites for their fellow citizens that sets the nation apart.

The intended audience for the document could be found in the royal houses of France and Spain.

The founder of a popular South Carolina barbecue restaurant was a white supremacist.

The Founding Fathers were more interested in limiting democracy than securing and expanding it.

When residents of the U.S. came to see Latin Americans as partners in a shared revolutionary experiment.

The 1776 Declaration was only the first. What we learn from the long history of splinter constitutions, manifestos, and secessions that followed.

Rachel Herrmann asks whether there’s such a thing as “American food.”

Fisher Ames’s philosophy can be summed up as follows: the “power of the people, if uncontroverted, is licentious and mobbish.”