The Flag

02/18/2026

Did they pay too much?

🇺🇸: will_stern via X

10/05/2025

This is awesome 🇺🇸

02/06/2025

https://www.stsheet.com/p/tariff-ied

The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped over 600 points following Trump’s tariffs. And while it clawed back those losses after pauses were announced, a palpable sense of tension still hangs over the market....

Plus, Twitter alums have some advice for federal employees...

07/25/2024

Thoughts on this statement from about The Flag? 🇺🇸

09/11/2023

07/04/2023

We post this picture every year because it’s the one we started the account with in 2016. Here’s a note we wrote in our newsletter. We love you, America 🇺🇸

Our independence from Britain 247 years ago made the world a better place. Before the United States, much of the Western world was organized in a vertical order known as the “Great Chain of Being” — a world ruled by priests and monarchs. It was a world in which, if you were born at the bottom, you had virtually no chance of ever making it to the top.

The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights took that existing framework and bodyslammed it against the ancient moral grounds it had been resting on for thousands of years.

The vertical order began to tilt, becoming just horizontal enough that, if you were born into a poor Mississippi family in 1954, you could go on to host a TV series called The Oprah Winfrey Show and end up with a net worth of $2.5 billion. Or, you could be the child of two immigrants and become a millionaire by age 23, giving the world the iPhone along the way, like Steve Jobs.

And the tilt didn’t end at the US borders. Our country’s inception compelled humanity to think about concepts like equality and individual rights. It provided a framework for a new economic model called capitalism — which, say what you will, has lifted more people out of poverty than any other framework before it.

Now, we still have a lot of work to do. A lot. Our country is far from perfect. But, if you’ve spent much time outside the United States, you probably know, all things considered, we have it pretty okay back home. Which might be why more than 40 million people living in the US were born in another country, accounting for about one-fifth of the world's migrants.

Nothing is easy. Nothing is perfect. But on a relative basis and historical terms, we think the world is much better now than it was before 1776. At the very least, we don’t have to answer to a King this weekend. And that alone, even 247 years later, is worth celebrating.

03/07/2023

Last week, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot did not win reelection. Here's what both sides are saying

Plus, ever hear of a “do nothing” day?

02/20/2023

On this Presidents Day, we’re taking a look at Joe Biden’s presidency, and whether or not he will run for reelection in 2024. Here's what both sides are saying.

Plus, which President oversaw the best stock market performance?

02/19/2023

On February 3, a train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, near the border with Pennsylvania. The train was carrying rail cars filled with vinyl chloride, a colorless but toxic liquid used to make vinyl and PVC piping. Here's what both sides are saying.

Plus, five affordable barndominiums.

02/16/2023

Over the past week, the nation has been inundated with news of high-altitude objects hovering overhead – and subsequent decisions by the US military to shoot them down. Here's what both sides are saying.

Plus, here’s how much Americans are planning to spend this Valentine’s Day.

02/15/2023

This is the first picture that pops up when you search for East Palestine, Ohio. Our thoughts and prayers are with this small community 🇺🇸: Domenica Iacovone

02/15/2023

As debt limit negotiations continue, President Biden has continually suggested GOP lawmakers want to cut Medicare and Social Security. Here's what both sides are saying.

Plus, where have our vacations gone?