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ESSAY: America after the fire

It is harder than ever to picture an America beyond this abyss. Here is one vision

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Anand Giridharadas
Sep 17, 2025
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Poverty, George Orwell wrote, annihilates the future. Hopelessness does, too. In this moment of violence, enmity, tribalism, and rising authoritarianism, it is hard to imagine an America on the far side of all this. Which makes it all the more important to do so. Yesterday I had a conversation that pointed to a path to getting there.

It was with Represen…

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