Prospect Weekend Reads Week of April 29th Stories from the week you don’t want to miss!
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People walk past the now-closed Art Institute of Philadelphia, operated by the Education Management Corporation, November 16, 2015, in Philadelphia.
The Many Faces of Campus Activism: Students facing repression for protesting the genocide in Gaza and the over 300,000 Art Institute students who fought to get their fraudulent student loan debt canceled, David Dayen writes, are both taking action as a result of being failed by the state. The Supreme Court Is Ready to Look Past the January 6th Attack: No matter what happens in the November election, it's increasingly clear that the Supreme Court's conservative majority will not hold Donald Trump accountable for attempting to overturn the 2020 election. Hassan Ali Kanu has the
story.
A Great Week for American Workers: Thanks to wins from the labor movement and the Biden administration, last week was one of the best weeks for workers in recent memory. Harold Meyerson details last week's victories and how they came to be.
Whistleblower Laws That Protect Lawbreakers: The late whistleblower John Barnett described Boeing as a psychological torture chamber for anyone who cared about safety. AIR 21, a law from 2000, makes it almost impossible for anyone to act as a whistleblower in the aviation industry. Maureen Tkacik has the story.
A Republic, If We Can Keep It: In his latest column, Rick Perlstein wonders why political pundits are treating the 2024 election with the usual formalities given the threat to American democracy–and potential for violence–a second Trump presidency poses.
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