Louis Menand on Donald Trump’s incessant lying, about matters large, like the coronavirus, and small, like the lobster industry, and what it means for the U.S. as the country celebrates the Fourth of July.

To mark the Fourth of July, Robin Wright writes about the true meaning of the Statue of Liberty and the diminished standing of the United States in the eyes of the world.

Whether in Brazil, Mexico, or elsewhere, when heads of state have reacted to the pandemic politically rather than clinically, their citizens have suffered for it, Jon Lee Anderson writes.

In his weekly newsletter, Bill McKibben writes about Facebook, the oil industry, and why so many large corporations remain resistant to change.

Amy Davidson Sorkin on the public-health nihilism that is growing in the wake of Donald Trump’s unreasoning hostility to wearing masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, and the Senate testimony given on Tuesday by Anthony Fauci.

W. Ralph Eubanks on how Black Lives Matter protesters finally won the battle to change the Mississippi state flag, which, since 1894, had included the Confederate stars and bars.