Uncle Sam on Mother’s Day

Published May 15, 2026 6:56am ET | Updated May 15, 2026 6:56am ET



In recent decades, the Mother’s Day discourse — the op-eds, the insufferable millennial-crafted explainers, the viral social media posts — was mostly anti-motherhood.

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