The American Dream may be slipping away. We have overcome such challenges before. To recover the Dream requires knowing where it came from, how it lasted so long and why it matters so much.

Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.

Immigrants have faced huge obstacles to achieving the American Dream, yet have persevered to overcome them.

One wonders whether the Obama re-election campaign may be on the right track as it seeks to apply the you-break-it-you-own-it rule to Bush and the American economy. Hardly a day goes by without President Obama or his surrogates arguing that it takes longer than four years to recover from an economic crisis so long in the making.

The American dream belongs to all of us.

The American dream is about freedom.