America's shrinking global prestige

FORMER Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's confident claim a decade ago that the United States was the world's "indispensable nation" -- the one country whose participation was needful to solve the most pressing challenges facing the global community -- is looking mighty threadbare. (Full article: 714 words)

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