The American Experiment
250 years later the American experiment is still alive, but it is being tested.
We need political innovation, practical reform, and a willingness to improve the systems we inherited.
Start here. This is the case for treating American self-government as an experiment that must be maintained and improved, and a first concrete idea for reform.
Join the conversation
Help shape the next 250 years from the ground floor.
Join at the ground floor: a marketplace of ideas for political innovation and practical improvements to American governance.
Why this, why now
The past shapes the path ahead.
The systems we inherited were never meant to be frozen in place; they were built to be argued over, stress-tested, and renewed.
This is a nonpartisan project. We’re building a marketplace of ideas for practical improvements to American governance, open to anyone who would rather repair the experiment than abandon it.