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Celebrating Our Nation’s Birthday

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JULY 3, 2026
Celebrating Our Nation’s Birthday 
Celebrate America’s Birthday by Fighting a Wannabe King →
This Fourth of July, we’re celebrating our country’s big birthday. In case you missed it, our July/August issue features a whole well of pieces on every part of our democracy: from the economy and the environment, to the abortion history that makes our country what it is.

 

Use your vacation to kick back with our summer issue, and keep your eyes peeled tomorrow for a wonderful essay on how political dissent should be seen as part of a healthy, thriving country, rather than a threat to the system.

 

-Alana Pockros

Associate Editor, The Nation
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How America Became the Progenitor of Environmentalism
From Indigenous practices to the Green New Deal, our country has always focused on prioritizing our planet.
BILL MCKIBBEN
 
What Is the American Economy?
The gap between what the numbers say and how people are feeling has only grown wider.
ROBERT B. REICH
 
Abortion Has Always Been an American Tradition
More than one founding father knew that to be truly free, women needed control over their reproduction.
REGINA MAHONE
 
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Separation of Church and State: America’s Best Idea
Christian nationalists keep forgetting what the country’s founders kept writing down.
JOHN FUGELSANG
 
What Makes American Architecture American?
It’s never been afraid to play fast and loose and big.
KATE WAGNER
 
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Lessons From the People’s Historian, Howard Zinn
His take on history arms youth with the courage to “transform the world.” It’s no wonder the right aims to erase it.
DAVE ZIRIN
The Contradictions of 1776
From the outset the United States was founded to protect both freedom and slavery.
GERALD HORNE
The Centuries-Long Struggle to Make the Constitution Equal for All
The effort to transform the United States’ founding document into a vehicle for egalitarian politics.
STEVEN HAHN
The Art of the American Revolution Across the Generations
The United States’ founding moment from Washington Crossing the Delaware to the paintings of Jacob Lawrence, Kara Walker, and Kent Monkman.
RACHEL HUNTER HIMES
Our July/August Issue is Here: America at 250

 

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