Giant in decline

In his 1849 novel Les Guepes, Alphonse Karr penned the classic line: “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” In the case of the United States in 2005, however, the opposite might be true: The more things stay the same, the more they are likely to change … for the worse. In that regard, compiling a list of potential threats to the US this year has a strangely deja-vu-all-over-again feeling.

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