The Trouble with Unity

"If conservatives are uncomfortable confronting our violent and complicated past, we progressives struggle with how to celebrate this place we also love. Indeed, such political speech makes many of us skittish: How can we express civic pride in an era of right-wing backlash? How can we speak love of country when that country was built by stolen labor on stolen land?"

For the Fourth this year, I pulled together some thoughts on patriotism for an essay for Politico.