Our National Polarization Has Consequences

Psychology Today | 22.09.2026 03:16
On this evening’s televised news, all three networks emphasized (“Breaking News!”) an unprovoked knife attack in Times Square, killing one person and grievously wounding another. If you read in the newspapers about this incident or others like it, the story likely ended with some variant of the Guardians’s reference to “turbulent times” or similar descriptions decrying why things currently seem so badly out of kilter.