Celebrating America's 250th: Reclaiming the Pursuit of Happiness

We Can Do Better · Jul 1, 2026 · 31m · transcript

This week, we are doing something different from welcoming an outside guest. For our episode on the week of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, we are going to talk about an article Fran recently published on the website Common Dreams: Reclaiming the Pursuit of Happiness: Let’s Celebrate the Declaration’s 250th by Ending Poverty (https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/reclaiming-pursuit-of-happiness)

To lead our conversation, we pulled out from behind the scenes our podcast’s guru and producer Jack Quigley. Jack is a journalist and writer, now Chief…