Read more American dream stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/25054/american-dream.html2010 - Newseren-usNewser Feed Generator2010-03-22T00:33:32http://www.newser.com/story/83650/american-dream-believers-plummeting.htmlJust 57% of Americans think the “American Dream” is achievable today, down 10 points from around a year ago and from 76% in July of 2001, pollster John Zogby writes. He splits “American Dreamers” into four categories: Traditional Materialists, Secular Spiritualists, Deferred Dreamers, and Dreamless Dead. Over the last year,...http://www.newser.com/story/83650/american-dream-believers-plummeting.html2010-03-18T18:59:42http://www.newser.com/story/53232/dream-small-america.htmlThe American dream sounds great, but the relentless pursuit of "whatever glitters beyond the edge of our means" is doing us no favors, Frederic Morton writes in the LA Times . "Our passion for the out-of-reach is the very dynamic that (to use a long- familiar phrase) 'has made this country...http://www.newser.com/story/53232/dream-small-america.html2009-03-13T16:45:31http://www.newser.com/story/52480/american-dream-dies-in-our-wallet.htmlTo the dreary lexical suite that defines our times—greed, foreclosure, stimulus and debt—we must add humility, David Kamp writes in Vanity Fair. O ur gluttonous pursuits and ridicule of middle-class life has landed us in the grip of a recession and twisted the shape of the American Dream,...http://www.newser.com/story/52480/american-dream-dies-in-our-wallet.html2009-03-08T12:26:23http://www.newser.com/story/31734/lift-a-glass-to-belgian-bid-for-bud.htmlBelgian beer company InBev’s bid for Anheuser-Busch may look like an affront to a US tradition—but it's perfectly in keeping with the American spirit of entrepreneurship, writes Maureen Ogle in the Washington Post . It’s “precisely the sort of bold strike that launched the American Revolution and still fuels the...http://www.newser.com/story/31734/lift-a-glass-to-belgian-bid-for-bud.html2008-07-06T15:29:00http://www.newser.com/story/20612/only-obama-can-rescue-us-brand.htmlHillary Clinton is the sturdy candidate resembling Microsoft, John McCain evokes Hummer, and Mike Huckabee’s the Applebee’s of the field, but only Barack Obama "has the secret sauce that Brand America needs to regain its appeal." media consultant Jeff Yang writes in Salon. Yang is part of a team studying...http://www.newser.com/story/20612/only-obama-can-rescue-us-brand.html2008-03-03T21:40:00