Prospect Weekend Reads Week of November 14th Stories from the week you don’t want to miss!
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) talks to reporters, November 15, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Republicans Are in for Two Years of Hell: With an impossibly slim majority in the House, the next two years of Republican politics will be a battle between the establishment and Trumpist factions of the party. Ryan Cooper wrote about the dynamics currently at play within the GOP.
Courts Use Increasingly Lawless Arguments to Block Student Debt Relief: The courts have ruled on an emergency
injunction of President Biden's student debt cancellation program. David Dayen wrote about how in practice, the conservative judiciary is creating two different legal systems: one for policies they like and one for policies they don’t.
Swifties Go Berserk Toward Ticketmaster: The ticketing behemoth, the result of a 2010 merger between Ticketmaster and Live Nation, may have finally messed with the wrong group of millions of rabid fans. Jarod Facundo has the story.
Still Democracy's Death Watch: After President Obama’s win in 2008, many Americans claimed racism was dead, but it didn’t open the door to a post-racial society. Today, many believe Democrats' success in the midterms saved democracy, but it just bought the country an extra 24 months. Read Gabrielle Gurley on how anti-democratic forces are still alive on the
right. We Already Have Laws to Stop Crypto Fraud: After the collapse of FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried’s declaration of bankruptcy, there is renewed focus on how to properly regulate crypto. But there are already laws on the books prohibiting fraud, as David Dayen explains. They should be enforced.
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