I love this country. I do. Our upstart, still young, nation trying democracy at an unprecedented breadth and depth. A nation with the oldest active, written Constitution, which guarantees freedoms unimaginable in many corners of the world.

A nation of 50 million immigrants, with more still arriving. A nation of citizens and refugees and want-to-be citizens who create, invent, build, teach, parent, farm, write, work, challenge, argue, worship, sing, dance and shout in somewhere between 350-430 different languages.

I know it’s uncool to say positive things about the US. That’s okay, I still do anyway.