Connect with us

Hi, what are you looking for?

This Matters with Bill Britt

The future America stopped building

America’s political system increasingly rewards short-term conflict while discouraging the long-term national vision required to solve major challenges.

America once built for generations. Now it often governs for the next news cycle.

In this week’s “This Matters,” Bill Britt examines what happens when a society loses the ability to think long-term—and why that shift may be shaping far more than politics.

Because great nations are not built through constant reaction.

They are built by people capable of seeing beyond the present moment.

Subscribe to “This Matters with Bill Britt” on YouTubeSpotifyApple or anywhere you get your podcasts.

The Alabama Political Reporter is a daily political news site devoted to Alabama politics. We provide accurate, reliable coverage of policy, elections and government.

More from APR

Featured Opinion

America’s unease runs deeper than politics: A nation that forgets what deserves admiration eventually forgets why power exists at all.

This Matters with Bill Britt

When America has not been attacked, no president should choose war alone and no Congress should evade its constitutional responsibility.

This Matters with Bill Britt

Military officers swear loyalty not to a president or party, but to the Constitution and the American people it protects.

This Matters with Bill Britt

When facts, law, principle and shared humanity lose their authority, self-government gives way to the raw exercise of political power.