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America’s 250th Birthday Comes With a Crisis of Democracy Too few of us would pass as credentialed American historians or licensed litigators for maintaining our legal protections, but all of us can feel that this U.S. experiment in democracy over 250 years is slipping away. What should be a moment of national pride on this [...] The post A Fourth Without Soul appeared first on DCReport.org.

In the lead-up to the semiquincentennial, President Donald Trump has waged a war on topics he deems “divisive,” from DEI to critical race theory. As a reporter and fact-checker, I’ve examined this attack on our history closely. I’ve interviewed historians about how our past shapes our current moment, observed the spectacles put on by administration, […]

Back in March, I wrote about the late Sarah Keys Evans, a Black veteran who played a key role in desegregating interstate travel. Before the summer of 1952, the 23-year-old private first class had never even taken part in a civil rights protest—but after she was arrested and jailed overnight in her Women’s Army Corps […]

Chris Hedges ScheerPost Neoliberalism, better understood by its less sanitized term cutthroat capitalism, is the poison that destroyed our democracy. It gave the billionaire class and corporations the ideological cover to impoverish the working class, impose crippling austerity, hollow out democratic institutions, buy off our two ruling political parties and deform our courts into appendages of […]

Joshua Scheer As Americans mark the Fourth of July with official celebrations of military power and national triumph, another vision of patriotism is emerging from those who have worn the uniform themselves. In this interview, Army veteran and Center on Conscience & War Executive Director Mike Prysner discusses the growing number of active-duty troops seeking […]

When Bryan Stevenson moved to Montgomery, Alabama, in the 1980s, the city—one of America’s most prominent slave trading spaces before the Civil War—had dozens of Confederate monuments and memorials, but nothing commemorating slavery.  Subscribe to Mother Jones podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app. Today, thanks to Stevenson’s efforts, the city looks much […]

Joshua Scheer President Donald Trump kicked off America’s 250th Independence Day celebrations with a speech at Mount Rushmore that centered on patriotism, anti-communism, and the upcoming midterm elections. Speaking beneath the monument to four U.S. presidents, Trump urged Americans to defend the nation’s founding ideals against what he described as a growing “communist menace.” Trump […]