Why Americans Trust Personalities More Than Journalists

Americans' trust in newspapers, television, and radio to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly just hit a new all-time low of 28 percent. Meanwhile, a growing share of the country, more than a third of adults under 30, now regularly gets its news from independent podcasters, YouTubers, and online commentators instead. The obvious question…

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ByRashad Pool

America First Politics

Would the Founders Recognize America Today?

On July 4, 2026, the United States marked 250 years since fifty-six men in Philadelphia pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to a proposition most of the world considered reckless: that free people could govern themselves. A quarter of a millennium later, the honest question is not whether the founders would be proud. It…

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ByWhilly Bermudez

America First Culture Politics

The American Constitution – Take the Test

The Constitution Test Most Americans Would Fail Ten questions most Americans have a strong opinion about, and get wrong more often than not. Read each question, commit to an answer in your head before scrolling to the explanation, and count up your score at the end. No trick questions here, just the plain text of…

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ByBethany Taylor

America First Politics

Patriotism Without Political Worship

In 1816, a celebrated American naval hero raised his glass and toasted "our country, right or wrong." Fifty-six years later, a senator who had fled political tyranny in Europe to become an American citizen stood on the floor of the United States Senate and corrected him: "if right, to be kept right; if wrong, to…

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ByLeonard Knowles

America First Business

The American Dream: The Cost of Middle-Class in 2026

A house, two cars, a couple of kids, a retirement account that actually grows, and enough left over for a vacation once a year. That is roughly what "the American Dream" has meant for most of the past century. This year, this magazine decided to actually price it out, region by region, category by category,…

ELON MUSK: MORE AMERICAN THAN MOST

There are Americans by birth, Americans by oath, and Americans by action. Elon Musk belongs to the last two categories. Born in Pretoria, South Africa, educated partly in Canada and at the University of Pennsylvania, and naturalized as a United States citizen in 2002, Musk did not inherit an American identity by geography. He chose…

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ByWhilly Bermudez

America First Politics

How Birthright Citizenship Became a Problem

The Fourteenth Amendment was written to give the children of freed slaves the citizenship this country owed them. A century and a half later, it is being read to hand automatic American citizenship to the children of tourists, visa overstays, and people who broke our immigration laws to get here. That was never the deal.…

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ByTeresa Palomares

America First Politics

MARCO RUBIO — The Leader America Needs

From a bartender's son in Miami to the seventh floor of the State Department, America's chief diplomat has spent a career proving that faith, family, and an unshakable love of country are still the surest path to greatness. There are leaders who arrive in Washington chasing a title, and there are leaders who arrive carrying…

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ByLeonard Knowles

America First World

IRAN – We should go all the way

After two wars, a dead supreme leader, and a ceasefire that already asks American taxpayers to help feed the Iranian public, it's time for the world to see what happens when America stops managing a threat and finishes it. America does not start fights. We finish them. For nearly half a century the Islamic Republic…

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ByLoraine Rich

America First People

Who Is Nick Shirley?

How a 24 year old missionary's son from Utah, armed with nothing but a smartphone and a set of direct questions, became the most consequential independent journalist in America, and why his work is a genuine gift to the country. There is a particular kind of courage that mainstream media no longer seems to understand:…

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ByEmiliano Forza

America First

CHARLIE KIRK