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See the three promises and ten proposed guarantees in one place.
Explore the platformA people-first progressive platform
Working edition · 01A fair chance. A secure life. A future we share.
The Next Square Deal is a proposed political platform for practical freedom: the security to build a life, the power to stand up to concentrated institutions, and an equal voice in the future we share.
Inspired by the Square Deal and the proposed Second Bill of Rights—but revised for today—it sets out ten public guarantees and shows the evidence, costs, objections, and policy choices behind them. It is independent of any candidate or party.
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Choose where to start
One platform, several useful ways in.
These are ordinary public reading paths. They are not personalized, scored, or recorded as political preferences.
Start with how rights work
Separate constitutional rules, statutes, services, norms, and proposals.
Understand the labelsStart with the evidence
Inspect source types, roles, limitations, and relationships to each guarantee.
Open the evidence libraryStart with history
Trace reform traditions alongside their exclusions and institutional limits.
Follow the historical lineageStart with policy mechanisms
Compare different ways institutions can pursue the same public goal.
Use the policy toolboxBuild your own Deal
Choose up to five priorities locally and share them only when you intend to.
Choose your prioritiesWhat the platform stands for
Three promises for practical freedom
A public platform should be judged by what it enables people to do: build secure lives, challenge concentrated power, and pass on functioning institutions and a livable country.
A Secure Foundation
People need a reliable base from which to work, participate, care for others, and plan. Security should expand practical freedom rather than prescribe one way of life.
Explore this promiseFreedom from Concentrated Power
Freedom requires protection from monopoly, exploitation, fraud, arbitrary surveillance, discrimination, and institutions too powerful to answer to the public.
Explore this promiseStewardship of Our Future
Every generation inherits institutions, infrastructure, resources, and an environment—and owes the next generation a system capable of enduring.
Explore this promiseThe platform
Ten guarantees people should be able to count on
These are proposed public commitments—not current constitutional rights. Each states a goal, compares ways to reach it, and shows costs, objections, evidence, and unresolved questions.
Good Work and Fair Pay
Everyone should have a fair opportunity to obtain useful work, earn enough to build a decent life, work under safe conditions, and act collectively with coworkers.
Working draft Proposed public guarantee
Also examines existing protections and institutions.
Read the guarantee: Good Work and Fair PayHealth Security
Everyone should be able to obtain timely, effective health care without financial ruin or arbitrary exclusion.
Working draft Proposed public guarantee
Also examines existing protections and institutions.
Read the guarantee: Health SecurityA Decent and Affordable Home
Everyone should have a practical path to safe, stable, accessible housing in a healthy community.
Working draft Proposed public guarantee
Also examines existing protections and institutions.
Read the guarantee: A Decent and Affordable HomeEducation and Lifelong Opportunity
Everyone should have access to excellent public education, useful training, civic knowledge, and affordable opportunities to continue learning throughout life.
Working draft Proposed public guarantee
Also examines existing protections and institutions.
Read the guarantee: Education and Lifelong OpportunityTime and Care for Family
People should have meaningful time and support to care for children, relatives, themselves, and their communities without automatically losing economic security.
Working draft Proposed public guarantee
Also examines existing protections and institutions.
Read the guarantee: Time and Care for FamilySecurity Through Life’s Risks
Illness, disability, unemployment, caregiving, disaster, and old age should not automatically lead to destitution.
Working draft Proposed public guarantee
Also examines existing protections and institutions.
Read the guarantee: Security Through Life’s RisksFair Markets and Small-Business Freedom
Workers, consumers, entrepreneurs, farmers, creators, and communities should be protected from coercive monopoly power and unfair competition.
Working draft Proposed public guarantee
Also examines existing protections and institutions.
Read the guarantee: Fair Markets and Small-Business FreedomConsumer and Digital Rights
People should be protected from fraud, unsafe products, abusive data practices, manipulative interfaces, discriminatory automated systems, and unreasonable digital surveillance.
Working draft Proposed public guarantee
Also examines existing protections and institutions.
Read the guarantee: Consumer and Digital RightsA Livable Environment and Shared Infrastructure
Every generation should inherit clean air and water, a stable climate, resilient infrastructure, healthy ecosystems, and accessible public resources.
Working draft Proposed public guarantee
Also examines existing protections and institutions.
Read the guarantee: A Livable Environment and Shared InfrastructureEqual Citizenship and Democratic Power
Every person should have an equal voice in public life, meaningful civil protections, and practical opportunities to participate in democratic institutions.
Working draft Proposed public guarantee
Also examines existing protections and institutions.
Read the guarantee: Equal Citizenship and Democratic PowerInspect the framework
The argument stays open to examination.
The project separates proposals from current law, shows what its sources can support, examines historical exclusions, and compares more than one policy route.
Law and proposals stay distinct
See how origin, enforcement, remedy, and durability change the meaning of a right.
How rights workSources show their limits
Type, role, verification, publication details, and limitations travel with the evidence.
Inspect the evidenceHistory includes exclusions
Earlier reforms are treated as context and argument—not as authorities beyond criticism.
Read the historyMechanisms remain choices
Shared goals can involve different institutions, funding models, risks, and tradeoffs.
Compare policy toolsBuild your Square Deal
What would your people-first platform put first?
You do not have to endorse every mechanism to support a shared direction. Choose up to five guarantees, put them in order, and share only when you intend to. Selections stay in your browser and are never attached to analytics or an email address.
Participation here is not a donation, petition signature, party registration, membership, or political-interest profile.
Updates
Research, revisions, and methods
Follow what changed, why it changed, and what the project is still working to understand.
August 13, 2026
What does it mean to support the Next Square Deal?
A practical guide to supporting a progressive public direction without pretending every guarantee is already law or requiring agreement on a single policy mechanism.
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6 minute read
August 11, 2026
Why build a Next Square Deal?
An introduction to the project's three promises, ten proposed guarantees, historical inheritance, and commitment to practical freedom without party branding.
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7 minute read
August 10, 2026
What counts as a right?
Why constitutional rights, statutes, regulatory protections, public services, international norms, and proposed guarantees must be labeled rather than blurred together.
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7 minute read