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Prospect Weekend Reads
Week of June 13th
Stories from the week you don't want to miss!

Paul Sancy/AP Photo

Storage tanks at the Marathon Petroleum refinery in Detroit, April 21,
2020.

The Hidden Driver of High Gas Prices
:
What's causing gas prices to reach record highs? Reduced refinery
capacity, Executive Editor David Dayen writes, in large part driven by
industry consolidation, has been a huge factor.

Reparations Get Real
: A governmental
task force in California has issued a first-of-its-kind report on the
need for reparations to address the toll of white supremacy, setting a
standard for the rest of the country. Read Ramenda Cyrus on what
California can do to make reparations a reality statewide.

The Premature Narrative on Democrats and Crime
:
Editor-at-Large Harold Meyerson takes a look at the incoming Los Angeles
primary results, suggesting that as votes continue to be counted, early
media narratives of a backlash against progressive criminal justice
reform may have been premature.

Pete Buttigieg's Day Job
:
Pete Buttigieg has clear ambitions beyond his current position as
Secretary of Transportation. But as Co-founder and Co-editor Robert
Kuttner writes, Buttigieg has the power to go after multiple abuses by
the airlines and signal administration support for suffering consumers.
He's barely touched it.
Senate Feminist Spends Last Days of 'Roe' Shilling for Crypto Bros
:
Kirsten Gillibrand, who enjoys a reputation as one of the most prominent
feminists in the Senate, has teamed up with GOP Senator Cynthia Lummis
on a cryptocurrency bill that is lightly disguised deregulation of the
industry. Staff Writer Alexander Sammon has the story.

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