As America marks its 250th anniversary, we have an opportunity to reflect on one of history’s greatest experiments. The Founders established a nation unlike any the world had ever seen, not built on ...

I love a good celebration, and Americans know how to go all-out to celebrate. Whether it’s Halloween, Christmas or even a major sporting event, we decorate, we costume, we have themed and branded food ...

At 250 years, America’s (fault) lines are showing. Partisan and regional divisions now rival the most intense internal conflicts apart from the Civil War. The escalating tension between the red and ...

Discussions of American power are prone to hyperbole. In his first inauguration speech, in 2017, Donald Trump lamented “American carnage”. In his second, in 2025, he declared that “America will ...

Americans from sea to shining sea united for a joyous celebration 250 years in the making as the Land of the Free marked a quarter-millennium of independence — and the birth of the once-radical notion ...

When Next250 organizers began planning for America’s 250th birthday, they envisioned bringing together communities in a polarized country to celebrate democracy. But then Donald Trump returned to ...

The last time America celebrated a big anniversary, I was all of three years old. Even so, I retain a few fuzzy memories from a sunny summer afternoon in small-town Michigan: climbing on a cannon in ...

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America turns 250 on Saturday. But the celebration Americans will see isn’t quite the one organizers spent the last decade planning. For nearly 10 years, the bipartisan, congressionally chartered ...

America’s big 250th birthday is this coming weekend, and the various news outlets are ready to celebrate this important occasion in style. The networks have assembled a programming lineup full of ...