Pop culture helped pull us together through the highs and lows

If you felt uncommon hope and unprecedented despair this year, join the club. Really, join the club, because for the first time in a long time, we're all members. Following years of deepening cultural fragmentation, a historical election and a crumbling economy that spanned red and blue, black and white, and rich and poor made 2008 the year of unity. (Full article: 1188 words)

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