Volume 53, Number 27, July 17, 2026
Editorial
Let’s Keep the Republic and Defeat the Empire for All Humanity!
by Megan Dobrodt
I. International
International Peace Coalition, Week 162: A Very Important Clarion Call to the Americans
by EIR Staff
EIR Roundtable July 31: Solve the Immigration Crisis with Development
What You Need To Know About the Strategic Significance of Pope Leo’s Encyclical
Effort To Merge U.S. Military with Israel Under Fire
by Harley Schlanger and Kevin Pearl
II. Strategic
Marco Rubio: Point Man for the War Party in the Trump Administration
by Harley Schlanger
III. America’s 250th
National Constitution Center of Philadelphia Presents Pope Leo XIV the Liberty Medal
by Gretchen Small and Marcia Merry Baker
Letter To Americans From Pope Leo XIV: ‘On the 250th Anniversary of the Founding of the United States of America’
by His Holiness Pope Leo XIV
Russia’s Record of Support for American Statehood—Lavrov’s Message for July 4, U.S. Independence Day
by Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
250 Years of a Grand Experiment
by Zohran Mamdani, Mayor of New York City
America and the World in 2076
by Diane Sare
Nicholas of Cusa and the American Republic
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
IV. From Lyndon LaRouche
Where Franklin Roosevelt Was Interrupted
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
June 16, 1998
