The war on America’s radicals

The war on America’s radicals

This Independence Day, Americans will gather to celebrate their founding myths — that the United States is a nation born in rebellion, rooted in love of liberty, and committed to the proposition that all men are created equal. But nearly 250 years on, what counts as American, and who gets to define what that means in practical terms, remains as contested as ever. Few recent stories illustrate this better than Zohran Mamdani. A 32-year-old democra