Core Ideas

America’s Plan is built on a small set of ideas about why systems fail, who should lead the work of fixing them, and why that work has to be long-term, civilian-led, and built around real accountability to succeed.

America’s Plan is built around a specific claim about knowledge and power: the people who live with a problem have more accurate, more durable, and more actionable knowledge of it than people who study it from a distance. That claim has practical consequences for how the platform is structured. Affected parties do not just participate … Read more