About Cassie McClure

Cassie McClure

Cassie McClure

Cassie McClure is a writer who first stumbled into a journalism degree because she didn't want to analyze other people's writing as an English major. She picked up a German degree since she already spoke the language, but she really should have picked Spanish.

As an elder millennial, Cassie McClure waited out the not-so-Great Recession by getting a master's in rhetoric to follow up a similarly useful BA in journalism. She worked in a university library for a good long while but also had a stint as an analyst in an open-source intelligence lab, which lends itself to fun stories at cocktail parties. 

As a German American, she navigates her bicultural background alongside her bicultural marriage to a Mexican national -- with whom she has two children -- all of which informs her writing about modern issues.

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When Travel Unspools Who You Are Apr 19, 2026

I don't travel to become someone new. If anything, travel makes it clear to how many versions of myself were already there. There is the practical version of me, the one who moves through airports with a kind of quiet competence. The one who makes t... Read More

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You Don't Get Distance from Your Decisions Apr 12, 2026

He kept emailing me about the slide. I had already told him what I knew: There wasn't extra funding for a replacement slide. The parks department wasn't ignoring the request. They wanted to redo the entire playground, and in that context, it was a fa... Read More

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The Hidden Advice in Interview Questions Apr 05, 2026

The main hall of the convention center had been split into several rows, with dozens of separate tables. The interviewers, career professionals from banks, non-profits, or boards, knew automatically to sit against the temporary canvas walls below a p... Read More

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The Cost of Silence Isn't Behind Us Mar 22, 2026

Different silences have built modern America, and we don't like to talk about them. They don't make it into the speeches or even some of the history books. They are the parts that get cut, softened, or turned into something easier to admire. When we ... Read More