Many of the threats facing colonists 2 centuries ago are again confronting Americans today. Rights & rule of law are under assault from president who has weaponised the govt, writes Mary Ellen Klas.

The US’ unique and quite phenomenal economic and political success has resulted from its own adaptations of the British inheritance, taking it in new directions.

The American Revolution is often examined through the lives of towering figures such as George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. But as the United States marks 250 years since the…