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How Bending Spoons built a $23bn tech empire from struggling brands
Nasdaq listing caps more than a decade of deals that transformed an Italian start-up into a global internet company
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Returning to pre-Trumpian politics won’t save America
The opening of the Obama presidential library set off a wave of nostalgia for an era that is not coming back
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Donald Trump defies storms and heatwave to deliver July 4 address
President eulogises forebears and eviscerates enemies at Lincoln Memorial on 250th anniversary of independence
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The massacre America forgot
The events of 1919 had largely been erased in the town of Elaine, Arkansas. Now a new generation is documenting the legacy of racial conflict for itself
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Yiyun Li: ‘Moby-Dick’ is the Great American Novel of pursuit and destruction
Like its country of origin, the book is unabashed, sometimes self-indulgent, often brilliant and never subdued or apologetic
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Francis Fukuyama: The problem of equality
We must understand our identity to be fundamentally rooted in a set of ideas, not the racial or ethnic identity of our ancestors
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Yankee pyramids: the meaning of presidential libraries
Every modern US president gets a physical totem of his tenure. What can they teach us about America’s struggle to remember itself?
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What has America ever done for us?
Jazz? The moon landings? Gerrymandering? On this 250th anniversary, it seems only right to think about this question




