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Candidates and the Truth About America - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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dismal statistics on child poverty, declaring it an outrage that of the 35 most economically advanced countries, the United States ranks 34th, edging out only Romania
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educational achievement, noting that this country comes in only 28th in the percentage of 4-year-olds enrolled in preschool
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14th in the percentage of 25-to-34-year-olds with a higher education
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infant mortality, where the United States ranks worse than 48 other countries and territories,
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the United States trails most of Europe, Australia and Canada in social mobility.
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America is indeed No. 1, he might declare — in locking its citizens up, with an incarceration rate far higher than that of the likes of Russia, Cuba, Iran or China
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in obesity, easily outweighing second-place Mexico and with nearly 10 times the rate of Japan
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in energy use per person, with double the consumption of prosperous Germany.
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This national characteristic, often labeled American exceptionalism, may inspire some people and politicians to perform heroically, rising to the level of our self-image
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Democrats are more loath than Republicans to look squarely at the government debt crisis indisputably looming with the aging of baby boomers and the ballooning cost of Medicare
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the self-censorship it produces in politicians is bipartisan, even if it is more pronounced on the left for some issues and the right for others.
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epublicans are more reluctant than Democrats to acknowledge the rise of global temperatures and its causes and consequences.
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An American politician who speaks too candidly about the country’s faults, she went on to say, risks being labeled with that most devastating of epithets: un-American.
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