U.S. President Ronald Reagan’s almost equally famous British counterpart Margaret Thatcher once remarked to an interviewer that "there’s no such thing as society…there are [only] individual men and ...

Driven by a confluence of powerful secular trends, Americans’ trust in civil society has declined to alarming levels. Without addressing these trends and reversing the loss of trust, the ideal of ...

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Ian Ward is a contributing writer for POLITICO Magazine. AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas sun was just beginning to rise over central Austin as groups of neatly-dressed law students arrived at the AT&T Hotel ...