Ashbee, Edward. "'Remoralization': American Society and Politics in the 1990s." The Political Quarterly 71.2 (2000): 192-201.

Print This article is a summary of the sociological, political, educational, and economic standing of the 90s. Its particular focus is on how all of these interact and how they essentially reflect the common decline of the United States during this period. While this article mostly focuses on the political and social side it also spends some time exploring the economic setting of the premillennial decade. Self-reliance and individualism were being displaced by welfare dependency. Current trends in out-of-wedlock births, crime, drug use, family decomposition, and educational decline, as well as a host of other social pathologies, are incompatible with the continuation of American society as we know it. Both these quotes are pretty good at summarizing the article. The author explains the early 90s as a time of social and economic decline. The article goes on to explain how the quality of American life was decreasing as a result of many political and social reforms, such as welfare. Even though both quotes above clearly show the authors conservative political view I chose to use this article because of its excellent scope of detail on a very broad subject. The author draws from many other articles, books, and personal experience however does not have very many first-party sources. This article will help me create a setting that feels two decades old. I grew up in the 90s but was too young to understand the economic and political ramifications at the time. By doing research on this decade I am more familiar with these. This article also made it easier for me to see the effect of the Persian Gulf War on an early 90s economy.