The Problem With American Patriotism
Patriotism has come to mean blind love of country, leaving little room for critique.
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American Values
To be “American” dictates a set of ingrained characteristics that give us a framework for how we think, what we believe we deserve, and how we vote. It’s the interpretation of these values, of “what it means to be an American,” where views begin to fracture. Our American Values: Who We Are Today series explores and interrogates the driving forces that continue to widen the political divide in this country. In revealing these truths, we seek to find ways to reconnect.
American Exceptionalism Is Not So Exceptional After All
We are a nation comprising more than 330 million people who've proven that we're capable of doing great things. So why have we adapted a sense of untenable, rugged individualism?
America’s Melting Pot That Never Was
The United States has long presented itself as a humanitarian nation. Our immigration history tells a different story.
The Polarization of Freedom
How the Right co-opted America’s most sacred value.
The Great American Myth of Equality
The land of equal opportunity has always been an oligarchy built upon the desires of the privileged few.
White Vigilantism Is American History
Since this country’s founding, white people have taken the law—that they created—into their own hands to terrorize and brutalize Black people.