Something has gone deeply wrong for young Americans. That’s the conclusion of the 2026 World Happiness Report, which once again ranked the United States 23rd on the planet. A decade ago, we cracked the top 15. Today, the under-25 crowd is dragging the whole national average down. Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, the Oxford economist who edits the report, didn’t sugarcoat it. He says young people’s life…
















