America at 250: still a ‘democratic experiment’

Two hundred fifty years after its founding, the United States continues wrestling with its original democratic promise. The Conversation marked yesterday's anniversary by exploring whether the democratic experiment established in seventeen seventy-six remains viable today. The piece considers how centuries of growth, change, and challenge have tested the nation's founding ideals.

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