When America celebrated its 250th birthday this weekend, I expected to feel the same exhilaration I experienced during the Bicentennial in 1976.
Instead, I felt something else.
Fifty years ago, I was a law student in Boston. I stood on the Esplanade with my mother listening to Arthur Fiedler conduct the Boston Pops as fireworks illuminated the Charles River. Like millions of Americans, I believed I was witnessing a once-in-a-lifetime celebration of our nation.
In the first episode of The Hoover Institution‘s new series, Only in America, Hoover Institution Director Condoleezza Rice sits down with NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang to explore a question at the heart of the American experience: What makes extraordinary achievement possible?
Through the story of NVIDIA‘s rise from a startup founded around a restaurant table to one of the world’s most consequential technology companies, Huang reflects on the freedom, opportunity, and culture of innovation that continue to make America a place where bold ideas can become reality.
The Worldwide brand of agricultural equipment, Massey Ferguson, announced Tuesday the tenth annual Sowing Good Deeds contest. The award recognizes charitable services, community involvement and educational activities of local Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association (PRCA) rodeo committees to their schools, towns and the Ag. Community. Nominations for 2026 are now open and will run through October 15, 2026. Finalists will be announced in early November, with the grand prize winner named at the PRCA Awards Banquet in Las Vegas, Nevada, on December 2, 2026. The winning rodeo committee receives a new Massey Ferguson tractor with loader, valued at over $60,000, as part of the prize package.
Analysis: Former Vice President Mike Pence has a new book out arguing that Republicans need to return to the Reagan-era version of conservatism and move away from the populism associated with Donald Trump. Pence sees Trump populism as a departure from conservative principles. Many conservatives, myself included, see it differently.
The real debate is not whether Ronald Reagan was right for his time. The real debate is whether the world that Reagan confronted is the same world we face today.
Gad Saad, a scholar at the Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom at the University of Mississippi, warns how misdirected empathy endangers not just well-intentioned individuals but Western civilization itself.
