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The American myth always came at someone’s expense. Now, it’s all but collapsed

Writing during the carnage of the first world war, the iconoclast intellectual Randolph Bourne described the American revolutionary inheritance as a squalid marriage between...

Obama’s former speechwriter Ben Rhodes examines the US through its 15 most defining speeches

Donald Trump “has proven Jeremiah Wright correct about a lot of things”, said Ben Rhodes, a former speechwriter and deputy national security adviser to...

‘Freedom Trucks’: a tour of Trump’s skewed tribute to American history – on 18 wheels

George Washington greets you as you enter the truck. The great man, dressed elegantly in a black velvet coat and white cravat, stares out...
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