America turns 250 with a broken heart
The saddest number in the Reuters/Ipsos America 250 poll is not Donald Trump’s approval rating, which is bad enough. It is not the 77% of Americans who expect political violence to increase over the next five years. It is not even the 38% who doubt the United States will exist as a single country in 2276. The saddest number is 30. America reaches its 250th birthday not as a confident republic, but as an anxious one. Only 30% of Americans say America is the greatest country in the world. That doe
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