African-American student Malik is on a track scholarship; academics are not his strong suit, and he goes in thinking that his athletic abilities will earn him a free ride through college. Fudge, a "professional student" who has been at Columbus for six years so far, becomes friendly with Malik and challenges his views about race and politics in America.

After a viral video catapults her to the mayor’s office of her small town, Melanie Bridgewater soon finds herself in a fight against a shadowy government cabal seeking to make the United States more ‘globally compliant’. With the help of Benjamin Franklin’s time machine, she must travel to the age of George Washington in an attempt to remind America of the wonders of its own history and The Constitution.