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Robert Koehler is an award-winning, Chicago-based journalist and nationally syndicated writer. Contact him at koehlercw@gmail.com or visit his website at commonwonders.com.

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10 December 2025

“Kill them all!”

You have a problem with that? What are you, some kind of unmanly wimp? Pete Hegseth spits in your face.

Let me catch my breath...

19 November 2025

I dedicate this question, which is at the core of the book with which I am struggling, to Donald Trump.

When we think of power, the word itself...

13 November 2025

It occurs to me that “giving birth to the future” isn’t simply a metaphor.

I say this as I continue wrestling with infinity – that is to say, working...

05 November 2025

Let him rest in . . . peace?

I don’t know. The irony of those words is a little too much for me to grasp as I sit here contemplating the death of...

29 October 2025

I’m trying to find my way back into The Possible Future, the working title of the book I started over a decade ago and eventually lost hold of....

22 October 2025

Shouts and honking horns . . . and a country being born?

Hey, hey, ho, ho . . . I don’t know. it’s been four days ago, as I write, that the second No...

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