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8 days ago

What links cricket clothing, Delta music and Polanski? The Saturday quiz ⊕

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

From a 1957 novel on a 37-metre-long scroll to a pair of Aris Isotoner Light gloves, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

1 What is the only Asian country wholly in the southern hemisphere?
2 Whi…

20 days ago

Kiya Burgess won the Benjamin Franklin lookalike contest Friday in Philadelphia - but not everyone was thrilled with the outcome.

22 days ago

I used to revere the great experiment that is the United States. After Trump, I’m not so sure | Jonathan Freedland ⊕⊕

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

On paper, the US constitution is a thing of beauty. But the would-be emperor in Washington has revealed its great weakness

America’s big birthday has come at a bad time. On Saturday it will be a divid…

26 days ago

Trump, laying siege to freedoms and truth itself, is twisting America’s milestone birthday into a joyless occasion

  • Americans: how do you feel about the country’s future after 250 years of independence…

68 days ago

Every morning when he lived in London , the great American thinker and politician Benjamin Franklin would throw open the shutters of his upstairs windows and take an 'air bath' - stark naked.

9 months ago

The court’s opinion in a case on immigrants’ right to free speech is a powerful lesson in civics

Democracy requires that we do more than look out for our own interests and defend our own rights. Ever…

Amid financial struggles and presidential criticism, USPS is facing challenges. But it plays an essential role in US life

In towns where Washington DC is an abstraction, the post office is the front d…

10 months ago

The president’s assault on US museums, education and memory is a critical dimension of his fascist aims

In a letter sent to Smithsonian secretary, Lonnie G Bunch III, on 12 August, the Trump administr…

11 months ago

Trump administration to expand review of Smithsonian museums to ‘get Woke out’ ○

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Exclusive: White House flagged institutions including those for Latino, African and Asian art for review, document shows

Amid the Donald Trump administration’s heavy-handed review of Smithsonian museu…

16 months ago

The founding fathers baked reason, truth and free speech into the US. That’s all gone now | Will Hutton ○

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Donald Trump’s actions go against the Enlightenment values that gave rise to the constitution. His might-is-right politics have nothing to offer Britain

The founding fathers of the USA – James Madison…

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