Trump’s tariffs, threats against Greenland spurred a rebellion by top leaders; the limits of “flattery diplomacy.”

From space to healthcare and artificial intelligence, what could the next 250 years of the United States look like?

At 250 years, America’s fault lines are showing. Partisan and regional divisions rival the most intense internal conflicts it has faced since the Civil War.

Many people conclude that America is in decline. That strikes this newspaper as a grave misreading. America’s power is immense—and it could be about to grow beyond all recognition. For evidence of the country’s unabated dynamism, look outside its dysfunctional politics.

Americans weighed in on what's best about the U.S., its greatest invention, most representative food and more in latest CBS News poll.

Egypt’s King Mentuhotep II reunited his country’s upper and lower regions at the turn of the 20th century—B.C.E. Were the history of nations to be measured as a person’s life, America would scarcely be old enough to have learned how to ride a bicycle.

Brooks Headley on ice cream, Kwame Onwuachi on fried chicken gizzards, Padma Lakshmi on the bowl—and 22 other arguments for the food that speaks to the nation on its 250th birthday