Five US Freedoms, Ranked By Outsiders

Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division

How America stacks up according to external sources

Americans don’t have a clear picture of where they really rank in the world. On one side, alarmists flail their arms and declare that the country has descended (or is about to descend) into a fascist nightmare. Jingoists rebut that America is the greatest place on earth for everything. The majority of the world…