A very timely essay from James Fallows. Check it out and then visit this post to subscribe to The Atlantic, if you’re not a subscriber already. Seriously – it’s critically important to support this type of outstanding journalism, and it’s a great publication.
Is America going to hell? After a year of economic calamity that many fear has sent us into irreversible decline, the author finds reassurance in the peculiarly American cycle of crisis and renewal, and in the continuing strength of the forces that have made the country great: our university system, our receptiveness to immigration, our culture of innovation. In most significant ways, the U.S. remains the envy of the world. But here’s the alarming problem: our governing system is old and broken and dysfunctional. Fixing it—without resorting to a constitutional convention or a coup—is the key to securing the nation’s future.
How America Can Rise Again - The Atlantic (January/February 2010)
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