Man walked on the moon for the first time 55 years ago today, July 20, as America’s Apollo 11 mission achieved a dream bigger than Earth itself. The world was riveted by the event. An estimated 650 ...

Barack Obama is a tinkerer and a poet in whose hands the concept of “American exceptionalism” is being reshaped for the 21st century and weaponized against Trumpism. First used with respect to the ...

The murder of innocents in May in Buffalo, N.Y., and Uvalde, Texas, brings the total number of Americans killed in more than 270 mass shootings since 2009 to over 1,500. Sadly, this ongoing domestic ...

This article first appeared on the London School of Economics site. According to the Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, "We're not a strong country anymore." It is a little unclear what ...

In the book American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People’s History of Fake News From the Revolutionary War to The War On Terror, authors Roberto Sirvent and Danny Haiphong assert that “The ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Karen Attiah, the global opinions editor at The Washington Post, about her new column on the myth of Texas exceptionalism. It has been a long week for Texans. The winter ...

James Traub doesn’t think much of the Quincy Institute: The idea of American exceptionalism, once a civic faith, now has the ring of the quaint—and not only because America elected a callow bully as ...