Ten Great American Achievements We Can’t Take for Granted 76.3%
The New Republic - By Liza Featherstone - 7/4/2026, 10:00 AM
Politically Left Leaning Bias 50% - Negativity Bias 37.6% - Biased Writer Voice 36.3%
American exceptionalism is an overblown and provincial tradition, but it’s our 250th birthday, so let’s indulge. As The New Republic’s USA 250 series showed—on newsstands now!—the country has gotten a lot wrong, but it’s also gotten a lot right. Here are some of the biggest achievements we can boast about, but which, in the Trump era,... more