I’ve been thinking a lot about patriotism lately — no, actually, I’ve been feeling patriotic. I’ve always loved America, but as a student of history and as a progressive, it’s been hard to express that love in a simple, succinct way. My love of country has always had a lot of shade and…

I grew up in a household that thought “America the Beautiful” should be our national anthem. My mom liked that it was a peace song instead of a war song; we all liked that it spoke more broadly about the country than narrowly to our success fending off the British…

I woke up the day before the Women’s March and felt a need to make a sign. I’d…