Few symbols of the American spirit loom as large as the national parks. President Franklin D. Roosevelt once observed that “there is nothing so American as our national parks… the fundamental idea behind the parks…is that the country belongs to the people”. These vast landscapes and historic sites – “America’s…

The idea of a “welfare state” – a government that ensures the economic and social well-being of its citizens – has been most closely associated with Northern Europe. In the United States, traditions of individualism and limited government long clashed with this model. Yet crises and politics compelled many American…

Author’s Note I did not grow up learning about Native nations as sovereign peoples. Like many, I was taught fragments—tragedies, myths, textbook summaries—often told from the outside, rarely with depth, and almost never with reverence. Writing this essay is part of unlearning that inheritance. I am not Native American. I…

In early May 2025, Canada’s newly sworn Prime Minister Mark Carney flew to Washington to meet U.S. President Donald Trump. Carney, a former central banker turned politician, carried more than just trade files – he carried history. The brisk negotiations and public sparring over steel tariffs, softwood lumber, and even…

If one rewrites the rules, another must reclaim the promise On January 20, 2025, the American republic crossed a historic threshold. As Donald J. Trump took the presidential oath for a second time, he did so not merely with renewed political ambition—but with a sweeping ideological blueprint in hand. That…