Your Prospect Weekend Reads Week of 8/2/2021 Stories from the week you don’t want to miss!
Illustration by Wesley Bedrosian
From David Dayen's print July/August feature, "Anatomy of an Anti-Union Meeting" how companies, armed with that union-busting playbook, commit psychological warfare on their employees to turn them against collective bargaining.
Anatomy of an Anti-Union Meeting: Executive Editor David Dayen with an exclusive on how No Evil Foods, a plant-based meat company, squashed a union drive.
Holding Electricity Ransom: The electric grid is a prime target for hackers, but as Deputy Editor
Gabrielle Gurley explains, the private companies that dominate the sector often put dollar signs before cyber sense.
Nina Turner Lost to the Redbox: Staff Writer Alexander Sammon explores
how Shontel Brown used questionably legal campaign finance tactics to take a House seat.
The New Pro-Abortion Generation: Contributor Amelia Pollard has
the story on how young people are taking the reins to protect abortion access as Roe v. Wade faces its greatest challenge yet.
Coal Miner's Son: Editor-at-Large Harold Meyerson remembers Rich Trumka, president of the
AFL-CIO who passed away suddenly this week.