Hope springs a trap. Recent research confirms that an absence of optimism plays a large role in keeping people trapped in poverty.
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America of all countries still has plenty of grounds to hope for a better future, despite its underperforming politics, and no matter who triumphs in November.
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Optimism colours the final column by Peter David, our Washington bureau chief, who died in a car accident last week. Our obituary remembers him.
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