USA

If America’s So Rich, How’d It Get So Sad?

Living abroad as an expat gives you a peculiar superpower: the ability to look back at your home country with a blend of longing, confusion, and clinical detachment. For those of us watching from Berlin, Bangkok, or Buenos Aires, the United States looks like a paradox wrapped in a statistical anomaly. By every hard metric—unemployment, […]

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American decline

Weapon sales at record highs, credit card debt soaring through the roof, and drug addiction breaking records: The USA is grappling with seven crises threatening the country. The political dominance of a figure like Trump is not the cause of America’s problems, but rather its symptom. His angry, uncompromising, and erratic political existence, which sometimes […]

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