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American decline is the idea that the United States of America is diminishing in power on a relative basis geopolitically, militarily, financially, economically, and technologically. It can also refer to absolute declines demographically, socially, morally, spiritually, culturally, in matters of healthcare, and/or on environmental issues .
Apr 17, 2024 · America has many problems—polarization, inequality, loss of trust, mass shootings, deaths of despair from drugs and suicide—just to name a few that make headlines. There is a case for ...
Sep 2, 2013 · In The Decline and Fall of the American Republic, Bruce Ackerman, one of our nation’s most thoughtful and most influential constitutional theorists, sounds the alarm about the dangers posed by our ever-expanding executive authority. Those who care about the future of our nation should pay careful heed to Ackerman’s warning, as well as to ...
Jun 2, 2023 · In the past 50 years, despite overall economic growth, the quality of life for most Americans has declined. The wealthy have become wealthier, while the incomes and wages of the median American...
Mar 31, 2021 · A modern-day historian writes the timeline of American decline. Review by Jacob S. Hacker. April 2, 2021 at 8:00 a.m. EDT. When Donald Trump campaigned with the slogan “make America great...
Nov 8, 2021 · The peak period of American hegemony lasted less than 20 years, from the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to the financial crisis of 2007-09. The country was dominant in many domains of...
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The American mind is dominated by heroic tales of the Founding Fathers, who built an Enlightenment machine that can tick-tock its way into the twenty-first century, with a little fine-tuning by the Supreme Court. The basic machinery has stood the test of time for two centuries—so why not three?
