Your Prospect Weekend Reads Week of February 28th Stories from the week you don’t want to miss!
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during the Munich Security Conference, February 19, 2022
Republicans’ Monstrous Cruelty Toward President Zelensky: Managing Editor Ryan Cooper reviews the appalling ways in which American conservatives have abused the
Ukrainian president and his country, beginning long before the Russian invasion.
Won’t Drill Baby Won’t Drill: Don’t expect domestic fracking companies and the Wall Street
investors getting rich off them to fill any gap in Russian petrochemicals, warns Executive Editor David Dayen.
The Inflation Conundrum: The Prospect’s Robert Kuttner argues against interest rate hikes in the face of worsening inflation driven by supply chain shocks and now the war in Ukraine.
Red
Alert in Virginia: Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s decision to put on the GOP’s culture-warrior armor is a strategy that Democrats have not fully figured out how to counter, writes Senior Editor Gabrielle Gurley.
Two-Faced Anti-Unionism: Labor writer Steven Greenhouse calls out the well-known corporations putting on a pro-union facade while at the same time seeking to squelch unionization efforts.
