Whenever I read some article like this about politics in the US, I wonder why they never look at how the world's largest democracy deals with these problems, in

Whenever I read some article like this about politics in the US, I wonder why they never look at how the world's largest democracy deals with these problems, instead of looking at trivial countries like Hungary or New Zealand with like 5 people. Is it ignorance? Racism? Some "stuck in the 60s" notion that third world countries are run by dictators?