MORE THAN TWO CENTURIES AGO we Americans thought it necessary to send you, our British cousins, a declaration which brought about a permanent separation of our political systems. Yet we retained a ...

The national movement Next250 made a stop in Hartford as it travels across the country to set forth new American values for ...

Two hundred and fifty years ago, the United States declared itself independent. Now in 2026, we find ourselves at another historic juncture. Many members of Congress appear to prioritize partisan ...

We the People–including Activists, Artists, Inter-spiritual Faith Leaders, Inter-partisan Political Leaders, Movements, Alliances, and Organizations–are unifying to negotiate a Declaration of ...

Shaped by input from thousands of U.S. residents, the Declaration and associated policy platform charts a bold course grounded in shared values of equity, justice, safety, health, democracy and ...

The sculpture is a reminder that the Declaration of Independence was not the work of one man, Thomas Jefferson, but rather a close collaboration of five illustrious Founders. That’s right, the writing ...

Review of What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better Society by Minouche Shafik. Social contracts — agreements between rulers and their citizens about how to distribute goods and ...

This is the time when we look back at our origins as a country. It’s also a good time to revisit the origins of one of our own institutions: the Women’s Fund of Smith County. In 1998, a study was ...

Today is the anniversary of the US Declaration of independence. If such thing had happened in internet times, it might have sounded like this: When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary ...

This week Americans could learn how fabulously a U.S. opinion about internationalism had shifted in three swift years. Less than three years ago the FORTUNE Survey found a bare 13% of Americans in ...