Prospect Weekend Reads Week of September 25th Stories from the week you don’t want to miss!
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A sign is posted on a barricade in front of the closed Lincoln Memorial in
Washington, October 1, 2013, during a previous federal government shutdown.
There's an Easy Way to End Government Shutdowns Forever: The government is about to shut down once again. This
shouldn’t be normal, and it isn’t in any other rich democracy. Ryan Cooperexplains how we got here and what can be done to fix the system. Rural Letter Carriers Push for Union Decertification: After a new payment system for postal workers went into effect in May, 11,000 rural letter carriers have signed a petition to decertify their union, citing reduced pay. Jarod Facundoreports on the workers’ limited options moving forward. What the Writers Won: After five months on the picket line, the Writers Guild of America has a new tentative agreement. As David Dayen explains, screenwriters won virtually all of their demands, but with one big caveat.
The [REDACTED] Case Against Amazon: This week, the FTC filed a 172-page compendium alleging that Amazon is an illegal monopoly. It was mostly redacted. Read Maureen Tkacik on what all of this means.
Biden on the Picket Line, Trump in the Wings: Donald Trump's rally in Michigan this week had nothing to do with supporting striking auto workers. It has everything to do, Harold Meyerson argues, with
relitigating the right's favorite culture wars.
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