The Indivisible America ^42.9%

The Free Press - By Caitlin Flanagan - 7/3/2026, 12:31 AM

Biased Writer Voice 61.4% - Indoctrination 27.1% - Framing Effect 22.2%

I didn’t go to first grade in the United States; I was overseas on one of my academic father’s endless sabbaticals. I got home in time for the new school year, and I learned that in my absence, my cohort had been charged with a new obligation: saying the Pledge of Allegiance each morning. Nobody took me aside to tell me what it meant... more