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Six Great Labor Day Reads
By Stephanie Bai,
13 hours ago
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Our editors compiled these six articles for your Labor Day reading. Spend some time with stories about the questions we should ask our families, Amazon’s big secret, the myth of the broke Millennial, and more.
Nearly 30 years after the company was founded, we still don’t really know where its profits come from. The answer will loom large in the antitrust case against it.
It’s a need that government subsidies and better family policy can’t necessarily address.
By Christine Emba
Essay
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When Labor Day Meant Something
By Chad Broughton
Somewhere along the line, Labor Day lost its meaning. Today the holiday stands for little more than the end of summer and the start of school, weekend-long sales, and maybe a barbecue or parade. It is no longer political …
Labor Day, though, was meant to honor not just the individual worker, but what workers accomplish together through activism and organizing.
Listen. Sabrina Carpenter’s new album , Short n’ Sweet (out now), tackles the exasperation of being young, female, straight, and single in 2024, Spencer Kornhaber writes.
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