America is not a consumer price index. Or a jobs report.Or a gross domestic product. If it was, any middling beancounter could be...

By Stacey Roberts No matter who wins the next election, America loses. We already know our next President doesn’t have the integrity...

By Stacey Roberts The way Americans think about politics is the root cause of America’s political problems: The party I don’t support...

By Stacey Roberts If you went to school in the United States, you learned about the American encampment at Valley Forge over the winter...

By Stacey Roberts Being in Congress is like living on another planet. With a quick “Aye” you can spend trillions of dollars, declare war,...

By Stacey Roberts Here we go again. Election season is heating up and it’s all starting to look familiar. Even if you don’t pay attention...

By Stacey Roberts Disaster movies can be a real downer. Earth is in mortal peril. Some overwhelming force is on its way to enslave...

By Stacey Roberts We are weakest when we are isolated and lonely. Americans nowadays are more alone than ever. Most of our eye contact is...

By Stacey Roberts “There is no one left, none but all of us.” —S.S. McClure Some of us have gone to the polls and voted, lured by the...

By Stacey Roberts We've gotten a lot of feedback on The Valley Forge Project already, so we thought we’d make a Frequently Asked...

By Lisa Gerardy I sat there and stared at the overhead projector screen (a presentation device somewhere between cave paintings and the...

By Stacey Roberts The candidates running for office and the political machines behind them are always the ones telling us what the next...

It’s winter, 1778. America is losing. The British have taken the American capital at Philadelphia and sent the Continental Congress into...

The short answer is that we're trying to amend the U.S. Constitution by persuading a couple hundred million Americans to abandon...

Americans don’t ask for help. We work harder than most people in the world. We put in longer hours and sacrifice ourselves to a work ethic