On Sunday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: America has always been the land of promise. For a better life for yourself and your family. For a better world, for your neighbors and countrymen. For a ...

Hope, USA: This summer, USA TODAY reporters visited six towns called Hope in search of stories about Americans’ triumphs and struggles and what gives them hope in this time of political division. So ...

My 25-year-old son told me that I should channel my inner “2008 Obama” as his generation wants and needs to focus on “hope.”As life would have it, at this moment, I am actually extremely hopeful.