Jan 19, 2024 · Former President Donald Trump believes that the national decline halted during his term in office and will stop again when he is reelected. But five unmistakable signs of American decline have...

American decline is the idea that the United States is diminishing in power on a relative basis geopolitically, militarily, financially, economically, and technologically.

Jun 2, 2023 · How has America slid into its current age of discord? Why has our trust in institutions collapsed, and why have our democratic norms unraveled?

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 pessimism.

Nov 11, 2016 · Barring a spectacular collapse of global markets or catastrophic armed conflict (both of which are now more plausible in the wake of Donald Trump´s victory), they will continue laying the rails of international affairs.

Jan 7, 2025 · Since the Soviet Union’s collapse, experts have urged policymakers to prepare for multipolarity, expecting the United States to be challenged or overtaken by rising powers. But reality has taken a different course.

Jan 5, 2021 · Beyond corruption, the U.S. is facing an alarming collapse in state capacity on multiple levels. The most widely noted and most important recent example involves vaccine distribution.

A political analyst for NBC News, she is the author of nine books on American politics, history and culture, from her most recent, “The Time of Our Lives,” to her first, “What I Saw at the ...

Jun 26, 2020 · Instead, America is exhibiting all of the key indicators that political experts use to characterise a failing state – the kind of nation on the brink you might’ve found in the post-Soviet era or in war-torn regions of Africa and the Middle East.

Aug 8, 2022 · Moscow and Beijing seem to think that the great American unwinding has already begun, while in Europe, officials worry about a sudden American collapse. “Do we talk about it?”