The federal government shutdown has now stretched into its third week, leaving hundreds of thousands of federal employees unpaid, snarling air travel, and threatening critical safety nets such as SNAP and WIC as Washington remains deadlocked over appropriation language and expiring...
This week’s Prospect Weekly Roundup sketched three stories that converge on power, choice, and the friction between public promises and private capacity: Naomi Bethune’s dispatch from Boston on Mayor Michelle Wu’s runaway re‑election—and what her dominance says about political power at the...