https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/dyzp9x/is-the-us-a-failed-state

You might have seen the claim come across your social media feed and dismissed it as too extreme. You might have seen China's state media make the same claim and dismissed it as propaganda: America is a "failed state."

That so many people would even argue this is a clear sign of how unhappy people are with the current situation in the U.S., but what exactly is a failed state, and how would we know if we were living in one?