The Storm Before the Calm: America's discord, the coming crisis of the 2020s, and the triumph beyond

What typically occurs early in a Fourth Turning—the initial catalyzing event, the deepening loss of civic trust, the galvanizing of partisanship, the rise of creedal passions, and the scramble to reconstruct national policies and priorities—all this has already happened. The later and more eventful stages of a Fourth Turning still lie ahead. Every

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As for the institutional cycle, the solution that will emerge in the federal government is one in which its internal functioning will shift, with the rigidity of regulation giving way to the use of increasing judgment among decision makers, from the public on up. In addition, there will be a resurrection of local political systems that have as thei

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