Your weekend long reads 🗞️
Good morning, friends of The Short List!
We just double checked and it's Saturday, not Thursday. Sorry about that other Short List you saw in your inbox this morning.
Care for some news to enjoy with your coffee? That was a rhetorical question, because we know you do.
- Modern day debtors prison? Many states are reconsidering the practice of jailing the poor, but debtors prisons are alive and well in Mississippi.
- A town built on firearms: For 200 years, this village has made guns. To stay afloat, it has to keep making guns.
- Are you hearing this, Alexa? Why is recording what we say to our voice assistants such a big deal to Amazon, Google and Apple?
And now, more news to get your weekend brewing: 👇