Another Year of American Collapse

Why and How American Life Keeps on Falling Apart

Here’s a grim, startling, yet somehow perfectly unsurprising fact. US life expectancy just fell for the third year in a row. As suicides soar, as despair and ruin grow, Americans are living shorter lives. But that was hardly the only dismal statistic to be seen. The Big Three — life expectancy, incomes, and happiness — all…