Jeff Robbins
An America not merely fractured but altogether splintered by extremism, hyperpartisanship, unprecedented vitriol and widespread disdain for democracy. A world order threatened by autocracies, and a Europe threatened by a tyrant demonstrably ready to conquer territory by force. A Mideast taken hostage by genocidal terrorist enterprises funded by Iran, long adjudged the world’s foremost state sponsor of terror.And that’s just for starters.For Americans struggling to keep up with a 24/7 cycle of news-or what purports to be news-it feels as though we are on the brink. And it feels that way because we are.