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Me listening to The New York Times The Daily podcast on the history of AC, when the reporter recalls how heat in Chicago was no big deal in the 1990s because people could just hang out in their cool brick apartment building. Was her family at their beach house in 1995?

If you are in NYC, please join us for a discussion about social solidarity. I'll be in conversation with the brilliant Eric Klinenberg, whose book 2020 is not to be missed, and the inimitable Chris Hayes. Sept 16 at NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge. ipk.nyu.edu/events/solidar…

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Heat waves are America’s deadliest weather events, but the danger they do isn’t widely appreciated or remembered, Eric Klinenberg writes. “Fortunately, there is a low-cost and promising solution: naming major heat waves.” Read: nyti.ms/4gizLjw

Trump just said he did a great job on the pandemic but that's a complete lie. We have a new paper analyzing how he handled the pandemic and it was an absolute disaster. You can read our paper here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17…

A short and simple proposal for saving lives as the planet warms: We need to name heat waves. It won’t even cost a dollar. ⁦New York Times Opinion⁩ podcast podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

And THAT’S why you don’t play chicken with the public library budget

As the planet warms, storms like Helene will only become stronger and more frequent. They will hit places, like the mountains of North Carolina, that were never exposed to such extreme weather. We can't afford to elect more climate change deniers. x.com/Ella__Dorsey/s…

For the first time ever recorded, October finds three hurricanes spinning simultaneously in the Atlantic. Hot new world

I wrote about the power of climate feedbacks for The New Yorker. The piece came out today, just as #Hurricane Milton became a Category 5 storm. newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

8PM EDT: This is nothing short of astronomical. I am at a loss for words to meteorologically describe you the storms small eye and intensity. 897mb pressure with 180 MPH max sustained winds and gusts 200+ MPH. This is now the 4th strongest hurricane ever recorded by pressure on

Mexico City is building out a new form of social infrastructure: Little Utopias, each one a gathering place, a playroom, a gym, a senior center, a service hub, a restaurant, a cultural haven, and a recovery space. What a brilliant idea. bloomberg.com/news/features/… via @citylab

Americans have a will not to know what happened here during 2020, and our collective denial of the nation’s bungled response to that year’s cascading crises is a massive political gift to Donald Trump. It’s time for a reckoning. Four years ago the US was in a lethal free fall.

We’re going to hear lots of stories about which people, policies and rhetoric are to blame for the Democrats’ defeat. Some of those stories may even be true! But an underrated factor is that 2024 was an absolutely horrendous year for incumbents around the world 👇

How Americans voted, according to Edison’s exit poll data. HT ⁦Philip N Cohen⁩

Thank you, Chicago Public Library chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/displa…

Thrilled that *2020* made The New Yorker 's Best Books of 2024 list! 🙏📘

1995: Chicago Heat Wave. 739 dead. 2005: Katrina. 1392 dead. $125b in damages. 2012: Sandy. 254 dead. $70b in damages. 2025: Los Angeles Wildfires. Deaths & damages TBD. Disasters don't change climate policies. People, politics, and movements do. What do we do now?

Why are economists in the US today uniquely able to exercise such sway over the state? What kind of policies would we get if legislators paid attention to the other social sciences, too? Brilliant essay from Caitlin Zaloom in The New York Review of Books nybooks.com/articles/2025/…

I don’t think anyone has ever loved sociology more than Michael Burawoy. I know that no one has ever loved their students more, or done so much to bring them together into the kind of community every scholar wants. What a beautiful life. What a devastating loss.