To End Political Vitriol, ‘Attack the Idea, Not the Person’
Pittsburgh, once united by the mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue, is fracturing over the war in Gaza. Is there a way to repair those bonds?
Visitors mark the first anniversary of the shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue.
Photographer: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images North AmericaIn this series, Frank Barry is retracing his 2020 Winnebago trip across America on the Lincoln Highway, the nation’s oldest transcontinental route. That adventure, which eventually became a book , focused on finding a way forward for a divided country. This time around, he’ll be revisiting some of the issues he examined, and some of the people he met, to learn what’s changed — and whether there is now more or less hope about the future.
In Pennsylvania, the Lincoln Highway runs through Gettysburg before entering Pittsburgh. When I was here four years ago, I heard about how the massacre at Tree of Life synagogue had united the city. This time, the story was very different.