American Dream, American Nightmare ^57.6%

The Nation - By Viet Thanh Nguyen - 6/26/2026, 9:00 AM

Biased Writer Voice 65.8% - Politically Left Leaning Bias 38.3% - Indoctrination 28.6%

I arrived in the United States as a refugee in the summer of 1975. We had settled in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, one of the original 13 colonies of what I call AMERICA™, the brand name of the United States. The Bicentennial occurred the next year, an event that was simultaneously novel and quaint, coming dressed in old-fashioned clothes... more