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The writers of The Atlantic have a long history of fretting about the youths.
I was at once overwhelmed by the panorama of distinctly American excess and moved by the great variety of American life to ...
The Founding Fathers who gathered in Philadelphia to adopt the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 picked a nice day ...
Selected by David Rooney, the author, most recently, of “The Big Hop: The First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean and ...
Understandably, after almost 250 years, the legislature is tired of being a coequal branch of government and wants to take a ...
Hanna Rosin: I’m Hanna Rosin. This is Radio Atlantic, and The Atlantic ’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, is really into Celtic punk music. Who knew? He listens to one band in particular when he’s ...
So Parliament took a new approach. It passed laws—the Sugar Act and Stamp Act— to raise revenue directly, bypassing the ...
American history is more polarizing than ever. But the country’s leading storyteller wants to prove there’s still an appetite ...
A Summer Reading List for America’s 250th Anniversary. On July 4, 2026, America will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the ...
Trump kicked off the one-year countdown to America's 250th this week and has plans set through 2026. Here's what's planned in ...
Auntie Mame” and “Marjorie Morningstar” were set in a New York City where Jews were prospering, and antisemites were out of ...