We tend to focus on battles over specific issues — gun laws, immigration policy, abortion — but lasting change in the United States must go deeper than efforts to reform individual policy areas. It will require a majority of Americans coming to believe that what we have in common with other Americans is greater than our differences. For many of us,

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Like every other country, ours has a lot to be proud of and a lot to be ashamed of. But a nation cannot reform itself unless it takes pride in itself -- unless it has an identity, rejoices in it, reflects upon it and tries to live up to it. Such pride sometimes takes the form of arrogant, bellicose nationalism. But it often takes the form of a... See more

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Senator Schmitt thinks foreign nationals and their children (like me) aren't smarter and more talented? That Real Red-Blooded Americans deserve our hard-earned prosperity, but are cheated out because they insist on a living wage for non-conformists? Well, besides the obvious horseshoe implications, I just wanna... See more