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'Make America Great Again' Didn't Start With Trump. It Won't End With Him, Either.

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By A.O. Scott Verified
| Breaking One
"Make America Great Again." -- Ronald Reagan, 1980; Bill Clinton, 1991; Donald Trump, 2015 -- Yes, it's a campaign slogan, an ideological catchphrase, a monument of political branding rather than rhetorical art. Some readers may wince at seeing these four words in a collection of important American sentences; others may suspect trolling or trickery.
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They're Some of the Most Famous Words Ever Written. Have You Ever Really Read Them?

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By A.O. Scott Verified
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"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." -- The Declaration of Independence, 1776 -- "The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem," Walt Whitman wrote, but the nation was conceived in prose. Other countries have national holidays that commemorate feats of revolutionary or military glory.
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Frederick Douglass’s Demand for Citizenship Is Still Radical

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By Jia Lynn Yang Verified, A.O. Scott Verified, Parul Sehgal Verified
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Jia Lynn Yang is a Times senior writer. She previously served as the national editor. June 8, 2026 In the Edward P. Jones historical novel, “The Known World,” there is a harrowing scene in which a freed slave named Augustus Townsend encounters a group of patrolmen one night on the dark country roads of antebellum Virginia. They are on the lookout for runaway slaves.
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