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From NPR: "President Trump said Wednesday he believes the current ceasefire with Iran is over after an exchange of attacks between the U.S. and Iran, the latest escalation straining the agreement to end the war."

PRRI finds that a solid majority of Americans are more likely to agree with the statement “I would prefer the U.S. to be a reliable neighbor that cooperates with other nations and only uses military force as a last resort” (70%) than with the statement “I would prefer the U.S. to be known as a mighty nation that does not hesitate to use military force to defend our interests” (27%).

Trump says ceasefire with Iran is 'over' as NATO summit wraps President Trump said he believes the current ceasefire with Iran is over following an exchange of attacks between the U.S. and Iran in the latest escalation straining the agreement to end the war.

PRRI Senior Democracy Fellow Katherine Stewart writes that a video produced by the Trump administration and Hillsdale College uses debunked myths and deliberate decontextualizations to twist the Founders’ ideals into pro-religious nationalist messaging

"The narrative reaches a climactic absurdity in the treatment of the debates concerning religious freedom in Virginia. As Hall notes, the Virginia Declaration of Rights, authored principally by George Mason, declares “that religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence.” According to Hall, this somehow proves that Mason never wanted to separate church and state. In fact, the point of the Declaration was to do precisely that."

Trump’s 250th Is a Festival of Slop History | The New Republic Amid our semiquincentennial celebration, the religious right is promoting its own revisionist version of the nation’s founding.