In Barack Obama, one sees a leader who is using the last months of his term in office to demonstrate the sort of international responsibility that was totally alien to his predecessor.
For a year, the national indignation aroused by the death of the young African-American Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri , has changed nothing, or nearly nothing.
The flag is yet to disappear from the American street view. It can still regularly be found on bumper stickers, coat sleeves, T-shirts and belt buckles.