US AT 250: WHAT LIES AHEAD
Global Affairs Session 64 06 July 2026 US AT 250: WHAT LIES AHEAD A powerful nation at a turning point At 250, the United States remains powerful, inventive and globally central, yet more divided, selective and contested than in its postwar heyday. Its greatest story is the expansion of liberty; its deepest wound is unequal freedom. The next era may bring less American order, more bargaining, rivalry and institutional fragility worldwide.