The Cold War ended with the unexpected collapse of the Soviet Empire, leaving the USA as the world’s lone superpower. No nation has ever been as mighty as post–Cold War America, or as rich. Yet strangely, social wellbeing has faltered at home during this period of extraordinary US global predominance.
In the first two posts in this series, we looked at post–Cold War America’s troubled trends in wealth promotion (net worth for ordinary households) and health advance as measured by mortality.
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