No Fireworks for Cash-Strapped Cities

Staff / Truthdig Jul 4, 2011 Here's a Catch-22 for the tea party movement: Cities across the country are going without Independence Day celebrations this year due to budget cuts. We know how our tax-hating friends love to wave flags and celebrate the late 1700s, but somebody has to pay for all those explosives, and, more often than not, it's us. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Doggone Fireworks

Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune Jul 2, 2011 Dig deeper

Still Standing Tall

Nate Beeler, Cagle Cartoons, The Washington Examiner Jul 2, 2011 Dig deeper

Startling New Lyrics to ‘Star Spangled Banner’ Revealed

Staff / Truthdig Jul 5, 2010 Get your fill of patriotic celebratory rituals over the July 4 weekend? Or maybe you're kind of over it all, which would put you in just the right frame of mind to watch this rather irreverent little musical number conjured up by the Onion's twisted humorists. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

July 4, 2010

Mike Luckovich / Truthdig Jul 5, 2010 Dig deeper

Surviving the Fourth of July

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Jul 7, 2008 I survive the degradation that has become America -- a land that exalts itself as a bastion of freedom and liberty while it tortures human beings, stripped of their rights, in offshore penal colonies, a land that wages wars defined under international law as criminal wars of aggression, a land that turns its back on its poor, its weak, its mentally ill, in a relentless drive to embrace totalitarian capitalism -- because I read books. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Protesters Razz Bush at July 4 Event

Staff / Truthdig Jul 5, 2008 When President Bush took to the podium on July 4 to speak at a naturalization ceremony at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello home, there were some in the crowd besides those gathered to be sworn in as American citizens. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Uncle Sam’s Piñata

Mr. Fish / Truthdig Jul 4, 2008 Dig deeper

Happy Oil Dependence Day

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Jul 2, 2008 As we head into the Fourth of July weekend of patriotic bluster and beer swilling -- but before we are too besotted with ourselves -- might we also for once consider our imperfections? Why not take a moment to heed the cautions of our founding father, George Washington, whose true legacy will most likely be ignored during the flag-waving weekend? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

America’s Birthday Grab Bag

Mr. Fish / Truthdig Jul 6, 2007 Dig deeper

Bush: If We Withdraw Now, the Terrorists Win

Staff / Truthdig Jul 6, 2007 President Bush was referring to U.S. troops when he made a comparison to Revolutionary War fighters who resisted a foreign occupation, but he could just as easily have been referring to the Iraqi insurgents. He made the remark during a July 4th address to National Guard members and their families. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )