10 Great Achievements We Can't Take for Granted

Summary

American exceptionalism is an overblown and provincial tradition, but it's our 250th birthday, so let's indulge. As The New Republic's USA 250 series showed-on newsstands now!-the country has gotten a lot wrong, but it's also gotten a lot right. Here are some of the biggest achievements we can boast about, but which, in the Trump era, are eroding or precarious.