Wednesday's Edition: The 80-Year Crisis

What’s going to happen next in America?

In 1997, two historians, William Strauss and Neil Howe, looked back five hundred years and uncovered a distinct pattern in modern history. They discovered that nations, in particular the United States, move through 4 cycles, each composed of four twenty-year periods. The cycle repeats roughly every 80 years, in which every fourth generation faces an exi…