The narratives that conservatives and progressives employ in order to justify or decry our history are flawed. One narrative insists on lionizing historical figures, the other on demonizing them—yet both distract from the ongoing pursuit of the American ideals of justice, liberty, and equality.

We need calls to solidarity and assurances that our sacrifices have meaning. So far, Donald Trump hasn't measured up.

Google and Facebook are making handsome profits off of the elderly, the lonely, and the depressed.

A buzzword in the foreign policy world right now is fatigue. Middle East fatigue, American fatigue, global fatigue. America is tired and in retreat, so the narrative goes. But this narrative sells short most Americans’ views on foreign policy.

“And how are evangelical conservatives going to change the culture? They’re going to make third-rate evangelical movies to compete with HBO,” quipped Sohrab Ahmari in a New Yorker profile of him and conservative writer David French. That statement gets at the heart of the current intramural debate among conservatives: how does one win a culture war?

“We spoke last night about Kashmir, Prime Minister [Modi] really feels he has it under control. They speak with Pakistan and I’m sure that they will be able to do something that will be very good.” President Trump delivered the preceding statement to reporters at the G7 Summit on Monday. While this might sound like typical rhetoric for the President, Trump’s statement effectively abdicated the U.S. role in calming tensions between the two nuclear states.

In This America: The Case for the Nation, Harvard historian Jill Lepore argues for a new kind of liberal nationalism.