Prospect Weekend Reads Week of January 30th Stories from the week you don’t want to miss!
FEB 2023
Heat pumps pull hot air
into homes in the winter, and push out hot air in the summer.
What Could Chill Heat Pumps:Heat pumps are a
simple indoor temperature control technology with environmental and economic benefits. Maine’s success in adopting them, as Joan Fitzgerald describes, is evidence of the possibility of widespread installation and of potential obstacles to mass adoption.
Americans' Climate Migration Has Already Begun: Worsening storms, floods, fires, and heat waves mean that millions living “on the front porch of the climate crisis” will have to relocate in the coming decades. Gabrielle Gurley reviews Jake Bittle's book The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration.
Amazon's Endgame: With their recent wave of layoffs and low
revenue growth in 2022, it may seem like Amazon is losing ground, but there's more to the story. David Dayen examines how Amazon is redefining its business model to become an unavoidable force in the American economy.
Amazon's Neoliberal War Mobilization: Ukraine is suffering
from a war-induced recession, but austerity measures won’t help its defense against Russian aggression. Read Luke Cooper on Ukraine's turn towards neoliberalism at the expense of labor and the war effort.
Joe Manchin's Dumb Budget Idea Already Failed Before: House Republicans took the debt ceiling hostage in 2011 demanding social spending cuts. By proposing a bipartisan committee to negotiate the debt ceiling, Ryan Cooper argues, Joe Manchin is begging for history to repeat itself.
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