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ESSAY: The feeling that unites a divided America

Anand Giridharadas · 29 Oct 2026

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  1. A death on the subway that seemed to prove that Americans now inhabit perfectly sealed, irreconcilable moral universes actually revealed one of the last things we have in common — abandonment.
  2. Our common abandonment keeps failing to produce a common politics — solidarity across difference — because all too often, as in the Penny and Mangione cases, the way the story is told silos it.
  3. This makes it harder to see that taking matters into one’s own hands has become a rare thread of our common life, a final American glue.
  4. A country in which we keep failing to hear the rhymes in our different cries of pain, in which our experiences of desertion are turned into competition rather than common cause, is better at producing avengers than answers.

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