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Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
It took Lisa Taddeo eight years and six trips across the US to write and connect the raw stories of three different women—three people spread across a spectrum of age, class, and philosophy. It is the examination through testimony of events more common than we like...
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
My copy of Caste is covered in notes and questions. Nearly every page has a question, or a note of a contradiction. Her work is thoughtful, bold, and at the same time, confounding. The classism and elitism in her conclusions is hard to hear. The reduction of...
Introducing Adaptive Politics: A Nine Dots Prize paper submission
Free Charging for All Americans
Carbon impact is an abstract, secondary concern for daily drivers. EV adoption is a problem of infrastructure economics. Americans depend on older vehicles to get to work, to navigate family and life stops, and to survive in the gig economy. Drivers in auto-centric...
The Electric Vehicle Highway of America, built by the States
In 2019, it wasn’t clear that Biden would be President. After the lack of COVID response and leadership by the Federal government, it seemed dubious that the Feds would be building an EV Charger Network for America. Now, Biden hasproposed this very undertakingfor his...
Confluence Over Compromise in Climate Change
“70% of greenhouse gas emissions are generated by 100 companies.” I first heard this statement in the summer of 2017. The shock of it started a feedback loop in my head. Three simple, distinct questions emerged, loud and clear: 1. Who are these companies? 2. Why are...
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