We all know by now that America has lost its ability to have a conversation, with people getting their information from such wildly divergent sources that we don’t have a shared reality. It’s like we’re on the Tower of Babel talking different languages.

But in our newsroom, we’ve recently lucked into a method of sharing sentiments from a cross section of readers widely, to provide insights into how people of different stripes think. It’s one small way in which we might listen to each other again.

For more than five years, I’ve been sending weekday morning text messages to people who signed up for them, a list that has grown to just under 3,200. The aim is to share stories we have in the works or questions we seek to answer, to hear your thoughts and suggestions.

I don’t believe there is

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