Prospect Weekend Reads Week of February 20th Stories from the week you don’t want to miss!
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Governor of Florida Ron
DeSantis visits Pio Hot Bagels in Staten Island, New York on February 20, 2023.
Who Wants to Teach in Florida?: Florida teachers have the highest vacancy rates in the country. Luca GoldMansourexamines how Gov. Ron DeSantis’s racist attacks on public education are pushing teachers to leave the profession.
One Liberal Senator Fights Back Against Judicial Tyranny: Conservatives are trying to get a Trump-appointed federal judge to ban abortion pills. In response, Ryan Cooper reports, Sen. Ron Wyden is urging the FDA not to obey the ruling if they succeed.
The Trans Panic: On this episode of Left Anchor, the hosts talked to Michael Hobbes and Evan Urquhart of Assigned Media about
centrist and liberal media outlets' complicity in rising transphobic bigotry.
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