🇬🇧 UK Jul 3, 2026 · Ross Barkan

No party in this USA

New Statesman UK
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I don’t know, as an American, what I imagined our 250th anniversary might look like. Yet as 4 July arrives, the day of the big birthday bash, I only feel somewhat numb. I am not cynical about the anniversary, but I am also not terribly interested. This is not an outlier opinion. Many Americans are only minimally engaged.



In every way, this is a peculiar time to celebrate what remains the most consequential, fascinating and dangerous country on Earth. Americans themselves are not in a triumpha

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