Every once in a while, okay, maybe every few days, I can’t help getting on the internet and typing in the late, great Toby Keith’s Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue.

The poem that inspired the song, America the Beautiful, is 130 years old today, and it resonates more than ever.

But country songs of dissent, that dare to question or call out the nation’s flaws, require some digging — unless you subscribe to Don’t Rock the Inbox, which this week shared an expertly curated ...

Rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs faced a mixed verdict on July 2 as his high-profile trial came to a sudden close. Although Combs ...

Four songs deserving of a spot on your 4th of July playlist that demand more out of this vast, beautiful, and divided country.

Some of the most impactful truth-tellers of our time flipped their red, white and blue to demonstrate the subversive power of Black culture.

Springsteen once said he released records the way a novelist writes chapters — deliberately, seasonally, each one in ...

Hanna Rosin: I’m Hanna Rosin. This is Radio Atlantic, and The Atlantic ’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, is really into Celtic punk music. Who knew? He listens to one band in particular when he’s ...

Illinois” describes a state and a nation in motion, full of complicated human beings who do bad things and good things.

Country music and patriotism go hand in hand. Find four country songs below that are exceedingly patriotic below.

Music has played a role and still plays a role in arousing patriotic feelings. From the earliest days music has played its ...

I did feel that the day was going to come eventually, but it’s not a song I ever wanted to sing,” Julian Lennon told me in ...