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From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Will Bunch, a deeply reported look at the broken state of college in America, arguing that access to college is the defining political issue of our time, propelling everything from Occupy Wall Street to the election of Donald Trump to the George Floyd protests.Today there are two Americas, separate and unequal, one educated and one not. And these two tribes - the resentful "non-college" crowd and their diploma-bearing yet increasingly disillusioned adversaries - seem on the brink of a civil war. This conflict is the culmination of an almost secret history of the United States since World War II - centered on the college diploma and how it devolved from a symbol of America's commitment to learning, science, and social mobility into a kind of Hunger Games contest to the death that has infuriated both the millions who got shut out and millions who got into deep debt to stay afloat.