play Live Sign upShow navigation menuplay Live Click here to searchsearchSign upplay videoplay videoVideo Duration 28 minutes 00 seconds play-arrow28:00Talk to Al JazeeraAmerica at 250: Democracy’s greatest experiment?Chris Hedges reflects on 250 years of US independence – the nation’s ideals, contradictions, and what it has become.
As the United States marks 250 years of independence, author and journalist Chris Hedges reflects on the promise of the American experiment, its greatest achievements, and its deepest contradictions. From the ideals of the Declaration of Independence to slavery, civil rights, war, and democracy, he examines whether the nation has lived up to its founding principles and what its future may hold.
