The eagle has crash-landed, or it's about to, leaving a trail of red stuff on the cover of Steven Brill's new book. The image may look dire, but he (Brill, that is; no one can say how the poor eagle feels) hasn't given up hope yet.
“Is the world's greatest democracy and economy broken?” Brill asks at the outset of “Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall — and Those Fighting to Reverse It.” “Not compared to the Civil War years, or to the early 1930s.”
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