America’s 250th Celebration Is Donald Trump’s Lost Cause 75.5%
The New Republic - By Jason Linkins - 6/27/2026, 10:00 AM
Biased Writer Voice 64.1% - Negativity Bias 52.5% - Appeal to Emotion 30.8%
We’re closing in on July Fourth and the nation’s 250th birthday, and right on time, the all-knowing digital algorithm deposited a memory from 2015 on my screen: That year, burning the Confederate flag on Independence Day was in vogue, sparked by the mass shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Carolina. My... more