Politics

The 250-Year Decline of American Exceptionalism

It is impossible to revisit the American Revolution without raising the question: Did that late eighteenth-century conflict create a truly new kind of society, an “exceptional” nation that has amel...

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America’s accountability crisis is coming for Europe too

Ivo Daalder, a former U.S. ambassador to NATO, is a senior fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center and host of the weekly podcast “World Review with Ivo Daalder.” He writes POLITICO’s From Acr...

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‘Hypocrisy’: Congress wants more homes. HUD is closing its low-income housing pipeline.

While Congress celebrates bipartisan legislation to boost affordable housing for working-class Americans, local authorities are scrambling to build rental homes for their poorest residents before t...

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Burn the Constitution Once Again

In a 1988 memoir recounting his thirty-year tenure as chief Washington correspondent of the Sunday Times, the British journalist Henry Brandon recalled the flicker of disquiet he felt in 1964 as he...

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How Elon Musk Became More Powerful Than Ever

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Elon Musk isn’t just the world’s richest man—he’s one of the most influential people alive. His companies have transformed industries, his wealth ...

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Canadians have 'sense of superiority' over Americans, poll finds

As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary of declaring independence of our common mother country, Canadians remain uneasy siblings with Americans, a new poll suggests. A new Postmedia...

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Who Owns the Declaration of Independence?

Last year, The Atlantic reported that President Donald Trump had queried advisers about putting the delicate original copy of the Declaration of Independence on display in the Oval Office. “Trump’s...

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The Declaration of Independence Performed by Morgan Freeman, Benicio del Toro, Winona Ryder & Other Actors

Some successful Hollywood producers spend their money on yachts, sports teams, and European castles. Norman Lear’s biggest purchase, or at least his most famous one, was a copy of th...

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Poll: Job losses, China threats split GOP on Trump’s AI agenda

President Donald Trump is pushing to deregulate the artificial intelligence industry and make it easier for the technology to develop rapidly. His voters are not fully on board.New results from The...

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Poll: The midterms' new big players are pushing agendas that voters don’t fully support

Deep-pocketed political groups tied to artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency are rapidly reshaping the midterm money landscape — but many Americans are uneasy with the industries behind the sp...

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Poll: Voters aren’t so sure about Trump’s sweeping election bill

President Donald Trump has made the SAVE America Act a central GOP priority ahead of the midterms. Voters still don't know how to feel about it.New results from The POLITICO Poll show that while ma...

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Canada Embraces Its Inner Defense Hawk

OTTAWA — Patrick Taylor is the first to stand, raise his right hand and swear an oath to king and country.An 18-year-old high school graduate who hails from an Ottawa suburb, Taylor is among eight ...

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EU conservatives attempt family therapy in Washington

Some conservative European politicians are trying to rescue a relationship with President Donald Trump that has become surprisingly rocky over the past few months.They got their chance as about 20 ...

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‘I want this on Donald’s desk’: Inside Melania Trump’s ambitious policymaking agenda

When first lady Melania Trump wanted to host a bipartisan roundtable on Capitol Hill this spring to advocate for her “Fostering the Future” legislation, Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.) wasn’t sure if it w...

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Trump's record-setting July 4 fireworks could shower the city with pollution

The National Park Service on Saturday will launch over 850,000 fireworks into the skies of Washington, bathing the capital in patriotic blasts of light for the nation’s 250th birthday.Then comes th...

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How Trump took over America’s 250th

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 Am...

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The American Revolution Was More Radical Than the Founders Wanted

A popular anecdote maintains that, upon their defeat at Yorktown, Lord Charles Cornwallis’s British fife-and-drum regiment was instructed by General George Washington to perform the Royalist anthem...

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James Carville worries about the 'end of the two-party system' as democratic socialists gain popularity

Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville and his podcast co-host Al Hunt lamented the rise of radicals in both parties and warned that this may be a sign that the two-party consensus is doomed ...

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Trump’s Economic Policy Legacy is Shrinking. It Didn’t Have to Be This Way.

President Donald Trump earlier this year called for limits on Wall Street’s ownership of single-family homes, a policy that both polls well and reflects his populist instincts.Four months later, de...

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Ex-Obama advisor mocked after questioning Chicago's response to unconscious man: 'Own a mirror?'

David Axelrod, a Democratic political consultant and strategist, received backlash online for noting that emergency services in Chicago had declined to assist a seemingly homeless man outside the A...

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Crypto billionaire among dozens to back startup from Gillibrand’s son

Democratic megadonor Chris Larsen has backed Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s political campaigns several times over the years.Now, he’s got a new investment: her 22-year-old son’s startup.Larsen, a crypt...

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