In 2023, I got the idea to bike to 100 different coffeeshops in Portland. I wasn’t actually sure that there were 100 shops worth going to, but it seemed possible, and by the end of the year I’d reached my goal and still hadn’t made it to every shop I’d like to visit. Writing about the project, it turns out, was a more difficult endeavor. It could have been just a story about coffee, but every time I sat down to write about it, I felt like it also needed to tie into right-wing delusion...| Liquidity Preference