Dark Days Ahead: The Fall of America and the Rise of the Tech Oligarchs

For decades, the world assumed the 21st century would belong to either the United States or China. Dark Days Ahead argues that both assumptions are wrong.

Drawing on history, economics, technology, and popular culture, Anne Stevenson-Yang, author of Wild Ride, A Short History of the Opening and Closing of the Chinese Economy, contends that the real struggle of our era is not between nations, but between increasingly weakened governments and a rising class of global oligarchs.

As infrastructure decays, public trust erodes, financial power concentrates, and technology escapes regulation, traditional ideas of sovereignty begin to fracture.

Dark Days Ahead argues that America is declining, China cannot truly replace it, and a new global oligarchy is emerging to fill the vacuum.

Provocative, unsettling, and compelling, Dark Days Ahead is for readers who want to understand not just where the world is heading, but why so many people feel that something fundamental has already broken.