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Our Climate Change Future Looks Like the Everglades

We are all Florida man.

6 min readMay 29, 2021

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Let Us Now Praise Jhane Barnes

Not long ago I found a Jhane Barnes shirt at a thrift store. It fit like a charm: a barely-there lightness from cotton that somehow feels…

5 min readMay 21, 2021

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Donald Trump’s Auto-da-fail

Remember Donald Trump? Before he got tossed out of the White House, and more importantly Twitter, he ran the free world and consumed all…

5 min readMay 19, 2021

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Donald Trump’s Auto-da-fail

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Joe Biden’s IKEA Effect

After a bit more than 100 days in office, Joe Biden has demonstrated an impressive political ability: the willingness to change course…

5 min readMay 12, 2021

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Joe Biden’s IKEA Effect

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How Court Packing Gave Us the Modern Supreme Court

John Marshall’s opinion in Madison vs. Marbury, the foundation of its role as a co-equal branch, is magisterial. The case that inspired it…

9 min readApr 28, 2021

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How Court Packing Gave Us the Modern Supreme Court

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Pandemics, Poverty, and Mental Health

The dull stress of the late pandemic is a kind of window into what a lot of people live with all the time.

5 min readApr 28, 2021

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Pandemics, Poverty, and Mental Health

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After the Pandemic, Let’s Fix Our Deadly Traffic Problem

The U.S. is worse than a lot of developed countries at a lot of public-health issues, but cutting this low-hanging fruit by a quarter would…

6 min readApr 28, 2021

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After the Pandemic, Let’s Fix Our Deadly Traffic Problem

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Why Writing Matters, Even in a Pandemic

We won’t forget all the mundane intricacies of life during the time of Covid-19— thanks to the personal essay

5 min readApr 28, 2021

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Why Writing Matters, Even in a Pandemic

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Boomers Had It Harder Than You Think

Between violent crime and stagflation, the 1970s were kind of a mess

7 min readMar 31, 2021

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Sympathy for the Investment Bankers

A small group of young analysts at Goldman Sachs are making noise about their working conditions. It’s tempting not to care, but it’s…

5 min readMar 30, 2021

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Whet Moser

Whet Moser

Freelance writer/editor in Chicago. Words in Marker, The Atlantic, COVID Tracking Project, elsewhere. Author of ‘Chicago: From Vision to Metropolis.’

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