America is 250 Years Old. Have You Ever Read the Declaration of Independence? 12.9%
Mother Jones - By Michael Mechanic, Thomas Jefferson - 7/3/2026, 11:30 AM
Negativity Bias 29.3% - Appeal to Emotion 28.1% - Ambiguity (Equivocation) 18.3%
On a glorious morning walk about a week before America’s 250th birthday, I was listening to Jon Stewart’s podcast on that theme. I recommend it. One of the things he discusses with his historian guests, Yale’s David Blight and Harvard’s Annette Gordon-Reed, is the Declaration of Independence, which both historians called a “dangerous... more