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An Ode to Kyle Lowry
Ugly things are beautiful
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Jake Bittle

April 2021

A Prayer for the City
Adam Toledo's death and Chicago's pain
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Jake Bittle

February 2021

Every Superhero Movie Is A Policy Failure
The #SnyderCut movement and the Streaming Wars
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Jake Bittle
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The Coming Care Crisis
What happens when we can't pay for elderly Americans to age at home?
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Jake Bittle
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January 2021

Whither the Fact-Checkers?
The uses and abuses of a Trump-era media mainstay
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Jake Bittle

December 2020

The Adults Aren't Alright
HBO's Industry and the asymmetrical drama of the millennial workplace
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Jake Bittle
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November 2020

The Color of Money
How Biden can take a different kind of climate action
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Jake Bittle

October 2020

The Great Churn
I'm writing a book.
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Jake Bittle
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September 2020

Nature Is Healing
God makes floods, man makes disasters.
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Jake Bittle

August 2020

Crime and Punishment
Policing and prosecution as an electoral question
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Jake Bittle

July 2020

Gerontocratic Vistas
Gerontocratic Vistas
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Jake Bittle
Updates on what I've been writing, reading, and thinking about.
I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.” —Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2 I’m a reporter and researcher based in…
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