SocraticGadfly: We're No. 31!

February 19, 2011

We're No. 31!

Among 33 "advanced" nations, as noted by the International Monetary Fund, we're ahead of only tiny Singapore and Hong Kong on the Gini inequality coefficient. We're in the middle of the pack on level of democracy.

And, in this land of theoretical abundance, we're tied for the bottom on lack of food security. We incarcerate more than twice as high a percentage of people as France.

Charles Blow's column is short but sweet, and provocatively titled: "Empire at the End of Decadence."

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