The US government has routinely cited the threat of ‘failed states’ to global security, asserting the right to intervene with military force to prevent their further collapse. In this ground-breaking new book, celebrated thinker Noam Chomsky argues that America itself is a failed state, and is as such a danger to its people and, increasingly, to the world. He draws attention to the inescapable irony that the United States, long involved in democracy-building adventures around the world, desperately needs to revitalise democracy far closer to home.