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Pew Research: The U.S. Constitution Is Among the Hardest in the World to Amend
Americans want change. Term limits, campaign finance reform, structural reforms to how power is held in this country. And by wide margins, they've wanted it for years. The problem isn't the will of the people. The problem is the wall standing between that will and the law.
Remember When: The President Who Spent His Life After the White House Protecting Everyone Else's Vote
On October 1, 1924, a peanut farmer's son was born in Plains, Georgia. Jimmy Carter would become the 39th President of the United States. By the time he died in December 2024 at age 100, most historians agreed his most important work happened after he lost the job.
Action Post: Check Your Voter Registration Today
Here's something that takes two minutes and matters more than almost anything else you'll do this fall: make sure you're registered to vote.
Pew Research: The AI Jobs Worry Just Flipped Parties
Two years ago, Republicans were more likely than Democrats to expect AI to cost jobs. Now it's the other way around.
Remember When: The Day Federal Troops Walked Nine Students to School
Nine teenagers wanted to go to school. It took the U.S. Army to get them through the door.
Good News: Christian Bale's Foster Village Opens for Sibling Groups
For 18 years, actor Christian Bale worked toward one goal: making sure siblings in foster care never have to be split up just because a system couldn't find one home big enough for all of them.
Pew Research: Term Limits, ERA, Citizens United
Most Americans want to blow up the way Washington works — and the data backs them up.
Remember When: The Doctor Who Went Where No One Else Would
For decades, she drove to the labor camps herself — the ones most doctors never visited, in fields most Americans never thought about — and she brought her medical bag and her full attention to people the system had written off entirely.
Good News: Courts Block Trump's Attempt to Restrict Mail-In Voting — For Now
Ballots are already in the mail. A federal judge just made sure they stay that way.
Pew Research: 9/11 – What We Remember and What We Must Carry Forward
Twenty-five years later, the memory has not faded. Eighty-three percent of Americans who were alive on September 11, 2001 — and 93% of those who were at least 10 years old that day — say they can still recall exactly where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news.
Remember When: The Painting That Waited for Democracy
A painting can hold a country's memory better than any speech. Sometimes it holds it for decades.
Pew Research: 1 in 4 Americans Are Now the "Sandwich Generation"
One in four American adults is holding two generations together right now. An aging parent on one side. Kids or an adult child on the other.
Remember When: 189 Countries Signed. America Didn't.
She had no army. No executive order. No enforcement mechanism. What she had was a document — and the belief that naming a wrong is the first step toward ending it.
Pew Research: Who Gets to Be a Refugee Now?
The United States has welcomed just 10,258 refugees in the first ten months of this fiscal year. That number represents real people — families who survived war, persecution, and violence, who waited years through security checks and health screenings, who did everything right — and were still turned away.
Remember When: They Beat a Superpower Without Firing a Shot
Two million people joined hands across three countries—and changed the course of history without firing a single shot.
Good News: Virginia Restores Voting Rights to 66,000+ People
Sixty-six thousand people got their voice back this year.
Pew Research: Trump’s Approval Rating Hits Historic Lows
Only 34% of Americans approve of the job Donald Trump is doing as president. That is not a political talking point. That is a number — and it tells a story about where this country stands.
Remember When: Ordinary People Stopped a Coup With Their Bodies
They came with no weapons. No orders. No guarantee it would matter. They simply came — more than 100,000 of them — and stood in the street.
Good News: The Country Showed Up
This past Saturday, something remarkable happened in every corner of the country — and it didn't come from Washington.
Pew Research: Americans' Confidence in Midterm Election Fairness Hits New Low
Only 55% of Americans are confident that this November's midterm elections will be conducted fairly and accurately. That means nearly half the country is heading into one of the most consequential elections in a generation with real doubt about whether their vote will count.