Prospect Weekend Reads Week of November 20th Stories from the week you don’t want to miss!
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Trading Hard Corruption for Soft CorruptionSenator Robert Menendez will likely lose the Democratic primary for his Senate seat in
June, but as David Dayen explains, the machine-style politics that enabled his corruption still remain.
Tesla Faces Off Against Nordic Labor SolidarityElon Musk refuses to play ball with the Swedish mechanics’ union, so the country's labor unions are shutting it down in solidarity. Ryan Cooper has the story.
The Commodification of EverythingKarl Polanyi wrote about the danger of commodification in the 1930s. Robert Kuttnerdescribes how Polanyi’s fears have now come true in an age where everything is a commodity. When a Feminist Content Sweatshop Was the Coolest Thing on the Internet A few weeks ago, G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller announced popular women's website Jezebel was shutting down. Maureen Tkacik, one of Jezebel's earliest writers, reminisces upon her time at the company.
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