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Americans are coping ourselves to death - by Noah Smith

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Our low life expectancy is partly a function of the ways we deal with stress.

As you know, I’m typically an optimist, especially about the United States. So far, since I started writing this blog, my optimism has been borne out in a number of dimensions. Our economy has been phenomenally robust, we’re in the middle of multiple technological revolutions, unrest is slowly ebbing, and we’re starting to successfully push back against authoritarian power around the world. But as an American optimist, I’d be doing my country a disservice if I didn’t point out the things that aren’t going right. We need to celebrate our successes and strengths, but we also need to shore up…

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