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People walk past a Red Lobster restaurant located in Times Square, New York, May 15, 2024.

The Raiding of Red Lobster : Red Lobster's demise wasn't because of Endless Shrimp; the numbers don't add up. A much larger pattern of bad business decisions are to blame, including the consolidation of seafood suppliers and private equity ownership. Luke Goldstein has the story.
[link removed] The Music Mafia's Invincible 'Poison Dwarf', in the Crosshairs at Last? : The main character of the Department of Justice's historic lawsuit to break up the Live Nation monopoly is former Ticketmaster CEO Irving Azoff, who had been colluding with Live Nation to fix artist fees for years. Maureen Tkacik and Krista Brown have the story.

Is Reversing Biden's Working-Class Slump Even Possible? : President Biden is polling disastrously among working class voters. It's possible to reverse this decline before November, Harold Meyerson argues, but a lack of social cohesion in much of the country will make it difficult.
A Five-Year Prison Sentence for a Public Hero : Earlier this month, former IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn began serving a five-year sentence for leaking the tax returns of Donald Trump and thousands of ultra-wealthy individuals. Reuven Avi-Yonah makes the case for why the leaks were a public service and Littlejohn should not be in prison.

Debating Trump : President Biden's challenge to Donald Trump to participate in two early debates, the first in June, the second in September, Robert Kuttner writes, suggests both nerve and desperation in the Biden camp. But will they happen at all?

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