At one time, it was in the great American tradition.

Then there was the American tradition of watching a video.

Yet making the personal political is an American tradition that's difficult to avoid.

They're trying to deal with the substance of the American tradition.

Whatever happened to the American tradition of three strikes and you're out?

And in the best American tradition, we kept raising the bar.

Besides, who said there's no American tradition of using violence to make a point?

War on these terms is inconsistent with the American democratic tradition.

Do you think there is such a thing as an American poetic tradition?

But that's not the American tradition - and anyway, when will this war be over?