'Young Washington' an Aspirational Hero for the Ages

Most Black Americans say they never fly the American flag, poll shows

A new survey conducted by The Associated Press and NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that how “Old Glory” is viewed through the lens of patriotism differs by age, political leanings and particularly race. (AP video: Mike Householder) #usa #politics #news Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Read more: https://apnews.com​ This video may be available for archive licensing via https://newsroom.ap.org/home

Young Washington Biopic Highlights Early American Grit

In an age where Americans are ill-informed about their nation’s founding, 'Young Washington' highlights the obstacles of the colonial period and the resilient spirit that overcame them.

‘Young Washington’ Biopic Highlights Early American Grit

In an age where Americans are ill-informed about their nation’s founding, ‘Young Washington’ highlights the obstacles of the colonial period and the resilient spirit that overcame them. There’s always a mixture of anticipation and dread when preparing to watch a film about a tremendously important topic — especially when you know a fair bit about... The post ‘Young Washington’ Biopic Highlights Early American Grit first appeared on Texas Public Policy Foundation.

Joel Smallbone Calls ‘Young Washington’ a Celebration of Freedom and America

Joel Smallbone of For King and Country discusses his surprisingly natural transition into 18th-century attire for the new film Young Washington, celebrating liberty and reflecting on America's past.

Patriotism Is Alive and Well on America's 250th Birthday

Patriotism Is Alive and Well on America's 250th Birthday

Radical "Redneck" History: Insult or Badge of Pride?

Radical "Redneck" History: Insult or Badge of Pride?

Opinion: How to Best Celebrate America’s 250th Anniversary? Drink!

Nguyen Huy Kham / REUTERSThough our country’s 250th birthday is now fast approaching, plenty of Americans aren’t feeling particularly celebratory. But as a historian of the American Revolution, I know that the founding generation would want us to party—and party hard. Not simply to celebrate them, but because few occasions in the late eighteenth century didn’t call for a drink.Those who lived through the Revolutionary Era consumed far more alcohol—whether cider, beer, wine, rum, or any number of cocktail concoctions—than we do today. They tippled at the end of a workday, or in the middle during harvest season; after birthing a baby, ordaining a new minister, training with the militia, or feting a friend’s arrival to town.Read more at The Daily Beast.

A Birthday Letter to America

by Chap Petersen A long time ago, I was a freshman at an elite New England college, just graduated from Fairfax High School. (“F-A-I-R-F-A-X-R-E! B-E-L-S, Oh yes! Those Rebels are best!”). On a gorgeous fall morning in 1987, I was taking a class in Colonial American history, when the topic turned to the American Revolution. []

'Young Washington' Delivers Action, Adventure, and Ambition

'Young Washington' Delivers Action, Adventure, and Ambition

How This New Gilded Age Ends

Paul Krugman’s been working on this all century.

Service to My Country: Paul A. Bauer, Jr., Army Airborne Infantry

Service, Sacrifice, and a Lifetime of Lessons By Paul A. Bauer Jr. I graduated from high school at age 17 in New York City and spent about five months attending community college. While college was a respectable path, it was not the path for me at that time. I was restless, looking for adventure, purpose, [] The post Service to My Country: Paul A. Bauer, Jr., Army Airborne Infantry appeared first on Must Read Alaska.

Sustaining an American National Identity Requires Civic Education

A shared civic tradition unites Americans in a way nothing else can.

Harvey Mansfield: America Is 250 Years Young

Harvey Mansfield: America Is 250 Years Young

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,173

This is the grave of Lloyd Waner. Born in 1906 in Harrah, Oklahoma, Waner grew up on a farm. It was hard work and the kids–Lloyd and Paul–didn’t really have leisure time. What they had was playing a little baseball at sunset. Their father had played some semipro ball and so taught the game to [] The post Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,173 appeared first on Lawyers, Guns Money.

Jesse Watters Sparks Debate After Blaming Gen Z “Laziness” For Surge In Progressive Wins

A televised debate over why young voters are backing progressive candidates has sparked a sharp back-and-forth about whether Generation Z is inherently “lazy” or simply trapped by a punishing modern economy. The friction began Thursday during a segment hosted by Fox News anchor Jesse Watters. Pointing to recent primary victories in New York and Colorado [] Jesse Watters Sparks Debate After Blaming Gen Z “Laziness” For Surge In Progressive Wins

Memorial service to honor firefighters killed on Colorado-Utah border

Three firefighters who were killed battling flames on the Colorado-Utah border are being remembered as brave heroes who were trailblazers in their industries. Wildfires have spread across the West fueled by months of dry weather and a record lack of snow, forcing residents from their homes as crews work to tamp down the flames. Emily []

Working-class zeroes: Radical socialist Democrats pretend to be blue-collar allies

Before Maine Democrat Graham Platner’s Senate campaign imploded due to credible sexual assault allegations, he had carefully cultivated an image as a working-class hero. The rugged, bearded 41-year-old was a combat veteran and an oyster farmer. “The Platner thing isn’t hard to understand,” the journalist Noah Smith posted on X before the community notes poured []

DC MAXXING: Interns Are Capitol Hill's Newest Main Characters...

DC MAXXING: Interns Are Capitol Hill's Newest Main Characters... (First column, 5th story, link)

Proof We Can Have Nice Things — Hegseth Celebrates Heroes of the National Guard As Crime Plummets in DC

Proof We Can Have Nice Things — Hegseth Celebrates Heroes of the National Guard As Crime Plummets in DC

250 years of American independence: Sinclair Lewis, the Nobel Prize-winning author who 'burst the smugness' of the average American

'America 250' (9/13). The 'Roaring Twenties' saw consumerism, puritanism, and xenophobia rise together in the United States. Sinclair Lewis, a native of Sauk Centre, a rural town in Minnesota, rose to fame with his biting satires of American life, which still resonate today.

America at 250: The Last, Best Hope

I was six years old when America celebrated her Bicentennial. Like so many children of my generation, I can still remember the flags lining neighborhood streets, the patriotic songs, the parades and fireworks that seemed [...]

What would George Washington say? It's a busy year for people who portray him

America's 250th birthday has brought more events and new crowds for Revolutionary reenactors and interpreters. They say Washington's life holds important lessons for our current political divide.

American pride hits a 25-year record low: Gallup

TEHRAN, Jun. 30 (MNA) – A new Gallup survey found that American pride is at a 25-year low, days ahead of the country’s 250th anniversary.

Happy 250th Birthday, America!

Editor’s Note: Few rivalries in American history have been as consequential — or as personal — as the one between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. The two men could hardly have been more different. Adams, the stocky and combative Massachusetts lawyer, was blunt to a fault and quick to suspicion. Jefferson, the tall, elegant Virginia planter, was reserved and idealistic. The two held diverging political philosophies as well. Adams preferred a strong, central government while Jefferson favored states’ rights and limited government. This rift eventually led to an epic falling out, culminating in the presidential election of 1800, as Jefferson The post Happy 250th Birthday, America! appeared first on War on the Rocks.

‘Young Washington’ Review: George Washington Goes to War in an Angel Studios Film That’s Like the Great-Man Biographies You Read in Grade School

Young Washington is like one of those great-man biographies you read in grade school. Released by Angel Studios for the Fourth of July, the movie is intended as a bit of likably square, neo-traditional, right-wing-adjacent counterprogramming. But say this much for it: In its slightly stodgy life-of-an-American-plaster-saint way, Jon Erwin’s coming-of-age military adventure film doesn’t make being George Washington look any easier than it was.

America Is a Young Country

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Movie review: Cookie-cutter 'Young Washington' makes for a dull history lesson

It’s the 250th birthday of the United States of America, and how better to celebrate than with a big-screen hagiography of America’s first president, George Washington? “Young Washington” arrives in theaters just in time for July Fourth ...

Bicentennial Beverages: Two 1976 TV Spots Have Americans Raising Their Drinks to Yesteryear’s Patriotism

Bicentennial Beverages: Two 1976 TV Spots Have Americans Raising Their Drinks to Yesteryear’s Patriotism

Her grandparents fought to join American democracy. She’s fighting to complete it.

In the lead-up to our country’s 250th anniversary, Errin Haines is writing a series of columns to contemplate the complicated expansion of our democracy. Subscribe to The Amendment newsletter. Joseph and Nellie Gamble were born in 1905 and 1910 in Jim Crow Alabama – which meant that for much of their adult lives, they were unable to vote []

Is This the Right Time to Be Celebrating America?

A-meh-rica at 250 My best friend was born on the Fourth of July. In recent years—some difficult years for the country—that has given me a level of plausible deniability. I still go to the beach and watch fireworks and down hot dogs like a sword swallower. But I’m not really celebrating America. I’m just celebrating [] The post Is This the Right Time to Be Celebrating America? first appeared on Washingtonian.

Karoline Leavitt blasts Gen Z for ‘laziness’ and liberal indoctrination

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says younger generations have been raised expecting everything to be handed to them and have lost the values of hard work and meritocracy. “This generation, my generation, I hate to say it, Gen Z and those younger than me have been raised with just silver spoons in their mouth, just getting everything handed to them,” Ms Leavitt said. “That’s not the values this country was built on. It was built on meritocracy and hard work. “It’s laziness, and it’s the liberal indoctrination.”

Dispatches From the Culture Wars — June 30, 2026

Dispatches From the Culture Wars — June 30, 2026 Ethan Sun, 06/28/2026 - 10:47

Stop Hating America

Stop Hating America Plus: failing power grids, Canadian euthanasia, AOC running for president, and more LIZ WOLFE Land that I love? Younger Americans are less patriotic than ever before. Two new polls illustrate this: Only 31 percent of youngsters aged 18 to 29 are “extremely” or “very” proud [] The post Stop Hating America first appeared on Attack the System.

Ecuadorian Marxist revolutionary and intellectual Mario Unda dies

Unda was known for combining intellectual rigor with political activism throughout his life, which earned him the affection and respect of workers’, peasant, and student organizations, among others. Zoe. , July 8, 2026

Let’s Mark America 250 with a Civic Education Revival

Let’s Mark America 250 with a Civic Education Revival

Kelsey Grammer says his character Fairfax saw the potential in 'Young Washington'

Kelsey Grammer says his character Fairfax saw the potential in 'Young Washington'

Parent Alert! America at 250: Save Patriotism

Polling shows that patriotism among young people is in steep decline. Jill Simonian of PragerU Kids discusses why parents must reverse this dangerous trend. In this special episode, join Jill, Shabbos Kestenbaum, and Selina Lewis for an unforgettable, family-friendly activity designed to reignite a love of country and deepen appreciation for America's founding. Explore More: PragerU's Independence Day Ceremony

RIP Tom Blanton, Antiwar Artist

One of America’s most talented antiwar artists and political satirists passed away last week. Tom Blanton did one of the best daily roundups of government oppression and outrages stories on the Internet. His Project for a New American Revolution was an inspiration for me and thousands of other folks over the years. Tom was also []