Cormac McCarthy’s fiction was a dark counter-narrative to American optimism

By Paul Giles

Texas education board moves to delay updates to social studies curriculum after conservative pushback

By Brian Lopez

The myth of American exceptionalism is just as much a myth about ourselves

By Anna Tarkov

I used to have both my father and America on a pedestal. My faith in both has been severely shaken, but I still have hope that it’s not too late for one of them.