Important Anniversaries in America’s Affair With Salt-Based Stimulants
An incomplete history of our country's incongruous amphetamine laws.
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Unlikely Patriots: Our Exceptionally American Week
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‘Sick at Heart’: The Lonely Radicalism of the Catonsville Nine
Catholic radicals burned hundreds of draft cards with homemade napalm in 1968. Here’s what modern activists can learn from them.
Colonel Evans Fordyce Carlson: Our Most Patriotic Communist?
A military memorandum re: the communist sympathizer who taught Maoist tactics to the Marines’ Raider battalions.
How I Cheated My Way Into Arlington National Cemetery
An early education in the hollowness of patriotic performance.
True Patriots Take Their Coffee to Go
The rich history, and intense American-ness, of the portable coffee cup.
No Country for Jailed Men
Our incarceration rate makes America exceptional. The public defenders who push back are some of our greatest patriots.
The American Diner at Age 143
The definitions and décor may change, but the diner remains our home, even when we've forgotten where home is.