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Your Prospect Weekend Reads
Week of 10/4/2021
Stories from the week you don't want to miss!

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USPS Begins Postal Banking Pilot Program
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In the most dramatic step in a half-century to re-establish a postal
banking system, a new pilot program allows customers to cash business or
payroll checks at the post office and place them onto a gift card.
Executive Editor David Dayen has the scoop.

The New York Times' Misleading Headline of the Year
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Contributor Peter Dreier asserts that Biden hasn't "thrown in with the
left." Rather, it's the left that has backed his compromises; the
center-right has not.

U.S. Demands Something for Nothing at Glasgow
:
In this first installment of our Global Warning newsletter series (sign
up for it here !), Writing Fellow Lee Harris
explains why the constraint on global climate talks is still parochial
American politics.

The Whole Judiciary Branch Has a Credibility Crisis
:
The Supreme Court is back in session but, as Staff Writer Alexander
Sammon asserts, it hasn't brought legitimacy with it. This time, with
a more straightforward financial corruption, differing from the
ideological and partisan corruption the Court had become known for.

Blue Bayou: A Bittersweet Victory for Immigrant Activists
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Contributor Manuel Madrid hails Justin Chon's deportation drama as a
cultural high point for the immigration rights movement. But do
progressives still care now that Trump is gone?

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