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Editor's letter

This week's Last Word is ab.out a group of .McD.onald's work­

ers in Bradford,. Pa., who walked off the job en m.asse. The arti­

cle, by Greg Jaffe, is the kind of immersive story that The Wash­

ington Post does very well; recently, we ran another piece in

The people Jaffe writes about call themselves the McRejects,

.and the core of the story is the strong bond between them. One

was kicked out by her parents at 17; an.other, by contrast, is still

stuck living with his parents in his childhood bedroom. Some­

how, the McRejects are able to stick together, avoiding ensnare·­

ment in th.at cycle of disconnection. But they are forced to do

this with very little help .. Despite decades of rhetoric about the

dignity •Of Work • and the importance of family, there is still little

aid for the working p•oor, and the demands of many means·-tested

government programs force wrenching choices about whether·

the sarne vein, about a family stuck in a FEMA traile.r camp. ln

these stories,. reporters embed themselves with their subjects and

peel back layers •OÍ personal history, often interleaved with in­

tense suffering. There are a few themes that tend to run through

them. One is that the subjects almost invariably work just as

hard-no, harder-than people higher on the econ,omic lad-

der. Another is how the destruction ,of social bon,ds and links • to

family creates a vici,ous cycle that drives the subje•cts ever deeper

into impoverishment and alienation. Stories that •On the surface

are about poverty or polarization turn out to be about discon­

nection and loneliness.

NEWSI

4 Main s.tories

Kyle Rittenhouse

acquitted on all counts;

vaccine boosters appr•oved

for all adults • as • Covid

cases r1se aga1n.

to work or get help. This is obviously not a place to propose so­

lutions, but they are out there, and the • only way to find them is

to be willing to l-ook directly at the struggles of pe•ople like the

McRejects, with both a clear eye and an open heart.

Mark Gimein

IMa^1 naging editor

Edito,r-in-chief: Wil I iam IFall k

IManaging editors: Theunis Bates,

Mark Gim,ein

6 Cont!roversy of the week

The Steele dossier and the

Russia-Trump collusion

.allegations

HAD 0

Assistam managing editor: Jay Wilkins

Deputy edito,r/ 1 lntemational: Susan Caskie

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Senior editors: Nlick Aspinwall,

Chris Erikson, [)anny Funt, Sc,ott iMeslow,

Dale Obbie, Zach Schonbrun, Hallie Stiller

Art directo·r: Dan Josephs

7 The U .. S .. at a glance

Carnage at a Christmas

parade in Waukesha,

Wis.; an organized theft

spree at Bay Are.a retailers

8 The worlld at a glance

American hostages freed

in Haiti; is Russia getting

ready to invade Ukraine?

10 People

Emily Ratajk.owski's b·o·dy

p•olitics; Dennis Rodman

on the joy of drag

11 Briefing

Is there an oute.r limit to

human beings' steadily

lengthening life span?

12 Best U.S .. columns

Letting the mob dictate

kids' education; w·hen a

conspiracy theory is right

14 Best European colum1ns

A Covid surge puts

European Union nations

back in lockdown

16 Talking points

Kamala Harris' vice

presidential blues; c. alls

for an Olympic boycott;

Build Back Better heads

to the Senate

Activists in Minneapolis protest the Rittenhouse verdict. (p.4)

ARTS

23 Books

How Concord, Mass.,

became a hub of genius

in the early 19th century

24 Author of the week

Nikole Hannah-Jones on

life as a lightning rod

26 Music & Stage

Adele's turbulent

and triumph, ant

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28 Film

Paul Thomas

Anderson

returns to

the '70s with

Licorice

Pizza

Emily Ratajkowski

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LEISURE

31 fo.od & Drink

A curried cauliflower and

cheese filo pie; standout

affordable sparklin,g wines

32 Consumer

The best toys to gif t this

holiday season, includíng a

purring plush critter

BUSINESS

36 News at a gla.nce

Biden keeps Jerome Powell

as Federal Reserve chair;

Ford-Rivian ,deal falis apart

37 Maki^1 'ng money

How higher Fannie Mae

and Freddie Mac lo.an limits

C·ould hurt homebuyers

.^38 Best columns
The White House worries
about rising gas prices; is
Visa doomed?

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