So we asked 12 people we admire—writers, academics, politicians, activists—to imagine that it’s 2050. Does the United States of America still exist in its current form? If a United States ...

These communities, once depopulating, now boast complex economies based ... United States has cleaner air and water now than 40 years ago, when the population was 200 million. The America of 2050 ...

While the United States reigned as the ... to secure their own power and prestige. America will remain a military and economic heavyweight in 2050, but midwifing this new global system will ...

But in the meantime, let us applaud these growing rates of intermixing for what they are: An encouraging symbol of a rapidly changing America. 2050 remains decades away, but if these images are ...