Prospect Weekend Reads Week of June 24th Stories from the week you don’t want to miss!
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Debate night in Atlanta, June 27, 2024
The Democrats Must Dump Biden. Here's How: We can't go on like this, Harold Meyerson writes after the presidential debate, and a Democratic Party that can't find another candidate who will actually beat Donald Trump has no raison d'etre. The Supreme Court Blesses a Form of Bribery: The U.S. Supreme Court
issued a ruling earlier this week that effectively legalizes bribery for state and local officials. Hassan Kanu has the story.
A Tarnished Silver
Lining: One of the only good things, Robert Kuttner argues, about last night's debate is that President Biden's collapse was so total that there leaves little doubt that he must step down.
A Small-Town Texas Librarian's Big Stand Against Book Bans: After Suzette Baker was fired from her library for refusing to abide by library book bans, her Texas community rallied behind her. Lise Olsen of the Texas Observer interviews the “Champion of Writers” on her firing and the battle against literary censorship. Biden's Inner Circle Deserves Some Blame Too: If you want to get mad at “the Democratic Party,” whoever you conceive of that being, for rolling this guy out
there and failing to convince him to stand down, that's fine, David Dayen argues. But be specific. We can name names.
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