The American Dream lives!

Despite what you heard, it isn't dead. Or dying. Or even wretchedly sick.

America!
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Any chance America's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad 2016 will somehow end well? No way. This is the annus horribilis when nothing mattered. So when a group of top economists and sociologists from Stanford, Harvard, and the University of California released their findings last week on the vitality of the "American Dream," you just knew they weren't going to find it "healthy" or "robust." Instead they declared it to be "fading."

Of course, they did.

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James Pethokoukis

James Pethokoukis is the DeWitt Wallace Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute where he runs the AEIdeas blog. He has also written for The New York Times, National Review, Commentary, The Weekly Standard, and other places.