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President Donald Trump appears at a FIFA Club World Cup 2025 match at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium on July 13, 2025, with FIFA president Gianni Infantino standing to the right. Eva Marie Uzcategui/FIFA via Getty Images

As an American, should you feel guilty about rooting against the US in the World Cup?

It’s one thing to pull for your national team when patriotism feels uncomplicated. It’s quite another when you aren’t feeling very proud to be an American.
Ukraine’s decision to rebury OUN leader Andriy Melnyk with state honours and rename a special forces unit after the wartime Ukrainian Insurgent Army has created a rupture with Poland. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a joint press conference with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in Kyiv on June 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Zelenskyy’s honouring of wartime nationalists is straining Ukraine’s alliance with Poland

Two years after Canada’s parliament unwittingly gave a standing ovation to a veteran of a Nazi SS division, Ukraine’s own president is honouring figures from the same dark chapter of wartime nationalism.
Palma Nova beach - a popular European holiday destination in the Spanish Balearic island of Majorca, 1960. Antonio Verdugo, Legacy Luis Fernández Fuster, University of Zaragoza, Huesca.

Beyond the ‘Spain is different’ slogan: putting an end to tourist clichés about Spain

A fresh look at tourism in Spain revisits the “Spain is Different” slogan, revealing a longer, more complex and contested history than the 1960s boom suggests.
Members of the public skating on the Rideau Canal pass youth holding a giant Canadian flag as part of launch celebrations for the 60th anniversary of the Canadian flag in February 2025 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Symbols take centre stage in debates about Canadian nationalism

Arguments over Canada’s national symbols, from a new flag in the 1960s to new passports two years ago, reveal how deeply some Canadians are attached to them and how they can shape nationalism.
Karol Nawrocki in the Oval Office with Donald Trump on May 25th 2025, ten days before the first round of the Polish presidential election. It is very rare for a sitting US president to receive a candidate in a foreign election. White House X account

Poland, divided between Trump and the EU

With the new Polish president, nationalist Karol Nawrocki, European Trump supporters, led by Viktor Orbán, have gained an additional ally.
Jean Marie Joseph Bove’s depiction of Lafayette returning to the U.S. The caption says, ‘A great man belongs to the whole universe.’ Blancheteau Collection/Cornell University Library via Wikimedia Commons

Lafayette helped Americans turn the tide in their fight for independence – and 50 years later, he helped forge the growing nation’s sense of identity

Hailed as a returning hero, the Marquis de Lafayette made a grand tour of the US in 1824-25, just before the country’s 50th birthday.

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