Author Tristan Justice profileIf your neighbors seem depressed, that’s because they probably are.

Americans are the unhappiest they’ve been in more than half a century, and they’re not having children.

According to new data from the General Social Survey highlighted by former Washington Post reporter Christopher Ingraham, just 19 percent of Americans last year said they were “very happy,” down from 31 percent, nearly a third, three years before. Twenty-four percent in 2021 said they were “not too happy.” …