Today’s read is from Jack DeVine, a retired nuclear energy executive. He is a 1965 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and served as a nuclear submarine officer. Here’s the obligatory tease:

In my 78 years living through our nation’s high times and hard times, I cannot recall hearing so many people ask the same rhetorical question: What’s happening to our country?

But what, specifically, is bothering us? There are probably as many answers to that question as there are American citizens. But, for what it’s worth, here’s my own list of the things that I think we should be seriously worried about, along with a shorter list of the ones not worth the effort.

Read it all here.