A New Year’s Resolution for America as it turns 250

2025 was an eventful year in America. Good things happened: We had a peaceful transition of power, violent crime rates have been falling steadily, medical advances have gotten much closer to eradicating obesity, among other positive developments. But we also witnessed a litany of awful events, particularly in the political arena: the assassination of political activist Charlie Kirk (and the tribal war that ensued), redistricting wars, indiscriminate and violent immigration enforcement (which victimized American citizens...