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The country united after 9/11. So why is there so much division now?

WBUR
Published September 11, 2026 at 11:05 AM CDT
A man pauses at the memorial during a ceremony commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks at the National September 11 Memorial in New York City on Friday, Sept. 11, 2026. (David Dee Delgado/AP)
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A man pauses at the memorial during a ceremony commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks at the National September 11 Memorial in New York City on Friday, Sept. 11, 2026. (David Dee Delgado/AP)

On the Friday politics roundtable, Here & Now‘s Robin Young and Indira Lakshmanan ask NPR senior contributor Ron Elving and The New Yorker’s Susan Glasser how the Sept. 11 terror attacks 25 years ago shaped our politics and helped fuel the divisions we see today.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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