Social mobility is still going strong in the Land of Opportunity. Is the American dream on life support? That’s the perennial claim of “declinists,” who are convinced that the American ...

The overarching themes of the novel could be said to be those of the American Dream and the Jazz Age, and more specifically about the clash of these two ideas in America in the 1920s. There is no ...

According to polls, attitude surveys, and observed behavior, the allegedly “entitled” millennial generation turns out to have great values, a big heart, and high hopes. Throughout U.S. history ...

WALTHAM — “All of my work is about the American dream, ” Hugh Hayden has often said, so it’s telling that most of it is the stuff of nightmares: A hand-hewn wooden ladder sprouting razor ...

Boxing has long been a metaphor for the American spirit, where the ring becomes a stage for individualism. Each fighter, alone in the spotlight, embodies the rugged determination that defines the ...

Americans overwhelmingly desire all the traditional trappings of the American dream—owning a home, having a family, and ...