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Jordan Weissmann

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Editorial Director at PPI. Former journo. Tweets represent my own opinions, not those of my employer or colleagues.
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The Greatest American Cocktail Is a Brilliant Idea With a Messy History Original

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By Jordan Weissmann
| Slate Verified
Skip to the content The Bon Vivant's Companion Drink This is part of One Nation Under Booze, a celebration of 250 years of alcohol-soaked American history. Read all of the series here. What drink deserves to be considered the Great American Cocktail? Ask most booze aficionados, and there is a strong chance you will receive one of just a few answers. Maybe the old fashioned, our nation’s primordial cocktail, or the dry martini, the world-conquering symbol of tipsy sophistication.
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I'm a DCPS Parent. Here's Why Janeese Lewis George's Big Education Plan Worries Me.

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By Jordan Weissmann
| Substack
I don’t think Janeese Lewis George has any bad intentions when it comes to schools. The councilwoman seems to genuinely care about both student and teacher wellbeing. She has a record of working on important, non-ideological issues like getting broken HVAC systems fixed so kids don’t boil on warm days. She very appropriately says her top education priority as mayor would be tackling DC’s truancy crisis.
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2025 was one of the worst years for job hunters since the Great Recession Original

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By Jordan Weissmann
| Vox Verified
There is no better window into the soul of America’s striving professional class than LinkedIn, a site that this year often seemed less like a networking platform than an extended group therapy session. To doomscroll through it was to encounter one post after another about the barren landscape for job hunters — laments about resumes silently filtered out by AI-powered gatekeepers and employers ghosting candidates midway through their interview process.
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