Sports in a divided America

Sports have brought people together for generations … but could that be changing? That’s the question Washington Post sports columnist Jerry Brewer is asking. How the promise of sports as a national unifier has been broken by our national politics.

Jerry Brewer, sports columnist at The Washington Post. Recently authored a series of columns called Grievance Games, which examined how the promise of sports as a national unifier has buckled under the pressures of grievance and division.