Hope everyone had a lovely weekend and got a chance to see the muralists at work last week.

Here’s this week’s reading list.

The Washington Post: Postal Service considers rural mail slowdown after election

The Economist: Israel and Hizbullah play with fire

CNN: Google agrees to first-in-the-nation deal to fund California newsrooms, but journalists are calling it a disaster

The New Yorker: Among America’s “low-information voters”

The Atlantic: Cape Cod offers a harbinger of America’s economic future

Associated Press: Colonial-era garden discovered in Virginia

The Economist: Jerome Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve

NPR: It’s somehow pumpkin spice season already. Why fall vibes are here earlier than ever

The Hechinger Report: ‘Not waiting for people to save us’: 9 school districts combine forces to help students

Route Fifty: A prescription for housing?

The Washington Post: A decade after D.C.’s Vision Zero promise, traffic fatalities have doubled

The Atlantic: Are you sure your house is worth that much?

The New York Times: Could that garage be apartments? New York hunts for places to build.

The Economist: How to reduce the risk of developing dementia

Associated Press: Biden promised to clean up heavily polluted communities. Here is how advocates say he did

Route Fifty: Climate change is messing with city sewers — and the solutions are even messier

The Economist: Kamala Harris can beat Donald Trump. But how would she govern?

Gothamist: Reading scores in NYC schools drop after curriculum overhaul

The New York Times: How Costco hacked the American shopping psyche

NPR: ‘A real shift in the vibe’: The tattoo industry is changing

The Economist: The mysterious middlemen helping Russia’s war machine

The Atlantic: Five books that changed readers’ minds

Route Fifty: Decrepit pipes put Jackson, Mississippi, on the edge of catastrophe. State regulators didn’t act.