The American Leader

We’re fortunate that we don’t live in a country where the state controls the media. Our free press is a true marketplace of ideas that fuels our personal ambitions and guides us as we join and build our communities. Yet, that marketplace has long been vulnerable to the manipulations of commercial interests that don’t always put national and local – or even individual – priorities ahead of profits. And over the last several decades, our media marketplace has been infiltrated by the growing influences of anti-democratic forces that would prefer to see our government fail rather than serve. Our focus on problem-solving and progress offers you a way to navigate the dis- and misinformation polluting the marketplace, more knowledgeably assess the motivating priorities behind public statements and actions, and limit the influence of those privileged forces handicapping society’s capacity to respond to the urgent needs of ALL Americans. Our commitment is to equip as many people as possible with the knowledge needed for the active work of citizenship, and to make it a little easier for you to take action. Our work is relentlessly transparent and non-partisan and based on best available data. Our bias is always about results and the movements of the needle of progress.