Prospect Weekend Reads Week of May 8th Stories from the week you don’t want to miss!
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Biden Anxiety: If President Biden doesn’t allay much of the public’s fears of a president drifting into senescence, Harold Meyerson writes, then some prominent Democrat had damn well better enter the race.
Will Dem PR Flacks Help Studios Crush Striking Writers Again?: During the last writers' strike of 2007-2008, Hollywood studios turned to two Democratic hacks — Clinton strategists Mark Fabiani and Chris Lehane — to wage a ruthless smear campaign to break the strike. Vishal Shankar of the Revolving Door Project has the story. Savvy Beltway Reporters' Debt Ceiling Duplicity: There’s no reason for
the Biden administration to be cowed by "savvy" journalists on the debt ceiling issue, but reporters shouldn't mislead their audiences. Read Ryan Cooper on how corporate media outlets are complici tin normalizing Republican legislative terrorism.
So Long But Not Farewell to Envision: Envision Healthcare, a giant in the
now-unprofitable practice of surprise billing, is filing for bankruptcy. As Maureen Tkacik explains, its legacy of fleecing patients lives on.
He Died Helping Build Tesla’s Gigafactory. Tesla Didn’t Tell Local Officials: Antelmo Ramirez passed away from hyperthermia while on the job at the construction site of Tesla’s Gigafactory near Austin, Texas. It’s an indictment not only of Tesla’s negligence, but of Texas’s thin safety net for manual laborers. Gus Bova of the Texas Observer has the story.
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