Prospect Weekend Reads Week of September 19th Stories from the week you don’t want to miss!
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Inside the Battle for the Latino Vote: Roughly 20% of Colorado’s
population is Latino. Although they worry about many Democratic key issues—jobs, police reform, and cost of living—Democrats must do more to get Latino voters to the polls. Jarod Facundo wrote about what's at stake this election.
Republicans Use Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free to Own the Libs: When it comes to the GOP, the cruelty is the point. Read Ryan Cooper on how Republicans see exploiting migrant struggles as key to their midterm strategy. Florida, Texas Dial Up Their War on Immigrants:Gabrielle Gurley wrote about how the Martha's Vineyard episode wasn't just a political stunt about the border. Abbott and DeSantis made clear their hatred for migrants and of Democratic-controlled parts of the country. The Problem With Emission Reduction Models: The
Biden administration has been touting the Inflation Reduction Act's capacity to reduce carbon emissions — but as Hannah Story Brown and Dorothy Slaterof the Revolving Door Project explain, the emission reduction models used rely on faulty data and may not be reliable.
Altercation: How the Democrats' Economics Changed: Mainstream Democrats have finally moved past the neoliberal economic policy consensus, as Michael Tomasky writes in this week's Altercation. What's next?
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