Fwd: The biggest threat to America is itself
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Nicholas Kristof < nytdirect@nytimes.com > Date: Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 8:00 PM Subject: The biggest threat to America is itself To: < trrytrvrs@gmail.com > I fear we're sliding toward mediocrity. View in browser | nytimes.com Continue reading the main story June 23, 2021 Erin Kirkland for The New York Times By Nicholas Kristof Opinion Columnist "America is back" became President Biden's refrain on his European trip this month, and in a narrow sense it is. A Pew Research Center survey found that 75 percent of those polled in a dozen countries expressed "confidence in the U.S. president to do the right thing," compared to 17 percent a year ago. Yet in a larger sense, America is not back. In some respects, we are sliding toward mediocrity — and that's the topic of my column today. Greeks have higher high school graduation rates . Chileans live longer . Fifteen-year-olds in Russia, Poland, Latvia...
