The US celebrated the end of a ‘long national nightmare’ as it turned 200. What about now?

A decade in the making, the 1976 bicentennial had a cathartic impact on the wounded national polity Americans: how do you feel about the country’s future after 250 years of independence? It felt like a proper jamboree – a coming together of diverse peoples who thought they had…

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