Sunday Reads: Oct. 27

Happy Halloween week Great Falls. Here’s this week’s reading list.

The New York Times: Kroger and Walmart deny ‘surge pricing’ after adopting digital price tags

Associated Press: Housing on the ballot: Harris, Trump push different plans for tackling housing affordability crisis

The New York Times: Sweeping raids and mass deportations: inside Trump’s 2025 immigration plans

NPR: Trump threatens media with darker days if he wins the election

The New York Times: Trump flirts with the ultimate tax cut: No income taxes at all

The Washington Post: How an anti-government group took over hurricane relief in this small North Carolina town

Reuters: Weight-loss drugs didn’t curb health costs within two years

The Economist: How to read America’s early-voting numbers

The Washington Post: The real reason billion-dollar disasters like Hurricane Helene are growing more common

Associated Press: A look at food-related illnesses at restaurants over the years

Foreign Affairs: The new battle for the Middle East

The Economist: How the Biden administration botched America’s sanctions against Iran

The War Horse: Experts: Military Directive 5240.01 does not authorize lethal force on Americans

The New York Times: New Pope Francis encyclical urges Catholics to reject individualism

The Washington Post and Food and Environment Reporting Network: Time to bust the meat trust

The New York Times: A 4-year-old in Harlem starved to death at home. How were the signs missed?

Minnesota Public Radio: Costly data demands vex some Minnesota school districts

Route Fifty: Don’t rush into marijuana legalization, experts say

NPR: DNA matches skull found in Illinois house to Indiana teen who died in 1866

The New York Times: Luxury fashion as political propaganda

The Washington Post: Asheville breweries are still assessing Helene’s damage as they begin to rebuild

Literary Hub: The life and legacy of an infamous cook: Typhoid Mary

The New York Times: A radical approach to flooding in England: Give land back to the sea

The New York Times: Your favorite horror movie was a much scarier true story

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Jenn Rowell