We Don’t Look a Day Over 240!

Is it too late for England to take us back?

Illustration by Melanie Lambrick

Why so glum, America? It’s almost your birthday, and a big one, too! How often does a country turn 250 years old!? (Well, actually, just once. A bunch of other countries have done it already.)

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