Prospect Weekend Reads Week of January 8th Stories from the week you don’t want to miss!
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Protesters demonstrate in support of President Donald Trump, April 15, 2019, near the former Bethlehem Steel Plant, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Why and Where the Working Class Turned Right: Long before the Democrats embraced allegedly "radical" social policies, they had effectively told millions
of working-class Americans their livelihoods were expendable. Harold Meyersonreviews Rust Belt Union Blues by Lainey Newman and Theda Skocpol, which explains why working-class voters in union towns turned to the right. Boeing 737 MAX Incident a By-Product of Its Financial Mindset: The plug door that fell off a Boeing 737 MAX Alaska Airlines plane, found Sunday night, was the result of design choices to cut costs and facilitate cramming more passengers into the cabin. Luke Goldstein has the story.
The Biden Box: At this point in the race, there is no plausible scenario in which President Biden would be replaced with a candidate better positioned to beat Trump. But as Robert Kuttner argues, must Biden take America down with him? The Fight for $15 Can Take a Bow: 25 states and 60 localities will raise their minimum wages in 2024. As Gabrielle Gurley reports, Advocates now see $15 as the floor and $20 as the new frontier. Trump's Lawyers Invite Biden to Assassinate Him: In court, former President Trump’s legal team argued that presidential immunity extends to ordering political assassinations, as long as they have not been impeached. Ryan Cooper takes the Trump team's argument to its logical conclusion.
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