America Was Never a Democracy ^59.3%

Slate Magazine - By Lizzie O’Leary - 7/3/2026, 1:00 PM

Confirmation Bias 25.4% - Hasty Generalization 24.8% - Negativity Bias 21.7%

This Independence Day, we will tell ourselves a lot of stories about what it means to be American. One consistent narrative, however, even 250 years in, is our country’s inability to reckon with the genocide of Indigenous people that kicked the whole thing off. According to Rebecca Nagle, a citizen of Cherokee Nation, a writer and... more