Prospect Weekend Reads Week of August 29th Stories from the week you don’t want to miss!
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Harvard’s Memorial Church is seen on March 13, 2016.
Besiege the Ivy League: We can
have a better higher-education system, or we can have schools that cater to the elite and privileged, but we can’t have both. Read Jane Chung on why it's time to dismantle the outsized power and prestige of the Ivy League.
Discount America: The explosion of dollar stores reveals a long-standing truth: There are really only two
types of customers in America, the elite and the desperate. David Dayen wrote about how corporations are reorienting their business models to profit off of those who have fallen out of the middle class.
Bannon in Custody: Robert Kuttner has a long and odd history with Steve Bannon, who turned himself in to the authorities this week. Read his accounting of the time he got Bannon fired from the White House. Bad Bunny, AOC, and Decolonizing Puerto Rico: Who will ultimately get to decide the
future of Puerto Rico? Will it be Washington's elite, or the movement for decolonization in the streets? Pedro Cabán has the story.
Generation Union: Today, the unionization efforts that may seem to have sprung out of nowhere are dominated by young workers. As Harold Meyerson argues, we have millennials and Gen Z to thank for the new resurgence of the labor movement.
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