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The thing that made Sunday stunning was the complete disintegration of a team we thought had more about them.

Nonetheless, the American case is distinctive, and its special character worth examining, if we’re to understand the kind of imperial disintegration that might take place over the next fifty years.

Good-government groups like Common Cause say that the dangers of officials relying on misleading statistics are myriad, including a disintegration of public trust as well as ill-informed legislation.

This is not merely a political condition but a moral disintegration—a retreat from shared humanity into the sterile, unyielding embrace of authoritarianism.

In the days since the government’s disintegration, Tadamon has illustrated the search for the missing, and for answers.