The United States’ founders firmly rejected King George III and the entire idea of monarchy 249 years ago, on July 4, 1776.

With American flags raised overhead, scores of people participated in a Fourth of July flag parade through Westmont Borough Friday, remembering the colonies’ separation from Great Britain nearly 250 ...

The Declaration of Independence is a revolutionary document that transformed governance from monarchy to democracy and ...

But for a lot of Americans, the celebration, and the flag itself, are more complicated than that. That’s the question that Explain It to Me, Vox’s weekly call-in show, is setting out to tackle this ...