The Economist.
Twice in a few weeks the government has struck.
This time a brewery on South State Street said to belong to Al Capone.
If anything captures America's strange relationship with booze, it's probably prohibition.
It's a scene of joy or sorrow depending on how you feel about it.
The nationwide ban on alcoholic drinks began in 1920,
and was repealed 13 years later,
much to the displeasure of the Women's Christian Temperance Movement.
I think prohibition will come back.
Amen.
Amen.
Amen.
Nearly a century on, it seems that temperance has returned.
New polling from Gallup shows that Gen Z and millennial Americans
are less likely to drink than previous generations.
Only half of adults under the age of 35 drink alcohol at all at any time, even a little bit.
So, today, how is the booze business responding to this new wave of sobriety?
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In Washington, DC, I'm Alice Fulwood.