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

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 ...

In these certifiably tumultuous political times, it’s useful to recall that America’s Declaration of Independence was also conceived as a purposeful declaration of interdependence. During the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We can’t get much done by ourselves and so we need to find a way to work together. United we may not succeed (given what humankind had done to the planet), but divided we will most certainly fail. In ...

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 ...