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Resulting from a collaboration between
The Atlantic Monthly magazine and the New America Foundation,
The Real State of the Union features 18 original essays on
the most important facets of our national well-being. Written
by many of our nation's most insightful observers, the essays
provide an objective and penetrating analysis of the most
critical challenges facing America as well as innovative
solutions to many of them. The State of the Union Address
is among the nation's oldest rituals, but one that has deviated
from its original purpose: Rather than a candid assessment
of the country or a meaningful self-evaluation by the current
administration, it has become a political spectacle marked
by self-congratulation and spin. The Real State of the
Union seeks to turn an empty exercise into a more meaningful national
dialogue about the social, political, and economic health
of our country. Rejecting the political correctness of both
parties, this volume tells the American public what it needs
to know about the real problems that plague the country and
why the political solutions that are offered too often fail
to address the real nature of those problems.
Ted Halstead is President
of the New America Foundation and is the author (with Michael
Lind) of The Radical Center:
The Future of American Politics. He
lives in Washington, D.C.
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