“Open societies depend on the belief that the line between good and evil runs through the middle of every heart. Now that line threatens to shift outwards and divide ‘us’ from ‘them.’” www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...

Its success is part random chance, part clever navigation of political fault lines that have not spared America’s big soft-drinks companies

Israeli security forces shot and killed two Palestinian men who appeared to be unarmed and surrendering in the occupied West Bank, according to video filmed by Palestine TV that was distributed by Reuters, and video shot by the news agency itself.

Spinning vortices of water trapped under the Thwaites glacier ice shelf account for 20 per cent of the ice melt. They’re expected to get worse as the world warms

Amazon workers say AI is being used to justify layoffs and impossible quotas. “Arbitrary metrics” are pushing them to exhaustion. f-st.co/xeDACnq

“Enshittification” is the word of the moment. It’s the reason Google is all ads and Amazon serves you crappy overpriced products. Cory Doctorow, who coined the term, joins @nndroid.bsky.social and @rafaelbehr.bsky.social to discuss how we can combat it ➡️ linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnowpod

Blind obedience is something everyone in a functioning democracy must mature out of. adbusters.substack.com/p/the-virtue...

Happy Buy Nothing Day! The #BlackFriday blackout has a much longer tradition among anti-consumerist advocates One of my favorite protest songs samples @adbusters.org’s PSA asking shoppers to “give it a rest” youtu.be/1uK0_jwyh_0

Annoyed by a ‘New York Times’ headline? It seems like that’s increasingly the Gray Lady’s goal f-st.co/SCtiyL0

I’ve met a #magacult member that thinks Trump will donate his gifts to the public after leaving office, even after one of them affected his tariff policy toward the Swiss Maybe he’s talking about the Trump presidential library? That’s not “the public” per se www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

Democrats bullied Trump into saving Obamacare — for now. Republicans will agree to renew subsidies, while making insurance worse and forcing the working-class to pay more. From @ddayen.bsky.social and @ryanlcooper.com: trib.al/IyVhCEu

Is your company going “AI-first” or considering layoffs? You’re not alone. The economy and workforce are changing, which is why TechEquity wrote “AI & Workforce Development: Building a Secure, Equitable Future for Workers.”

X laid off half of the engineering team responsible for fighting spam and illegal content in October, a group already significantly reduced since Musk's acquisition. Learn more: https://thein.fo/43Oj4YU

I’m pretty much settled on it lately: being white and male must be a disability. Not all white people, of course, and not all males either But if you combine both things, chances are, not only will an opinion not work on you; you will actively work to shut it out. That’s what’s breaking America

Trump on Wednesday effectively conceded that the civil war in Sudan hadn’t been on his radar and said he saw the conflict “differently” after his conversation with the Saudi crown prince.

The foreign-policy community is markedly absent from where young Americans consume information: TikTok.

Happy to see @foreignpolicy.com on TikTok! Instead of “mainstream voices,” I am thinking of calling them voices of reason in #geopolitics. Reading FP I learn about the “why” behind policy, not just told how to think www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrLXgY62 foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/21/d...

“I’m 79 years old. I have standing to speak about the fact that there is a time to move on. And I think that the Democratic leaders today should move on."

The use of drones to surveil protesters and others taking part in activities ostensibly protected under the Constitution frequently raises concerns. interc.pt/44qGBPE

In remote Alaska, public radio stations like KYUK provide lifesaving information during natural disasters. But Trump cut funds for public media, and that could mean deadly consequences for the rural community. The latest from @revealnews.org:

Democratic politicians and activists are quietly lobbying to upend the way the party picks its presidential nominee by urging the use of ranked-choice voting.

Base Power, led by Zach Dell, was valued at $4 billion after raising a $1 billion funding round in October. The company plans to build two battery-making factories in Austin. Full story here: https://thein.fo/49w1aOc

If they can change out their rails, maybe @bart.gov should consider changing over suburban rail service to standard gauge for cheaper equipment and operation I’d start with everything north of Concord, and it can be converted one station at a time to minimize disruption

Spinning vortices of water trapped under the Thwaites glacier ice shelf account for 20 per cent of the ice melt. They’re expected to get worse as the world warms

Can you have skibidi toilet riz? Because I think that’s what America has lately, especially Ohio

“Early political maneuvering suggests Mr. Mamdani is comfortable taking big risks, forming alliances with political opponents and willing to disappoint ardent supporters if he views the moves as helpful in carrying out his ambitious agenda,” Mara Gay writes.

Marjorie Taylor Greene resigns from Congress after clash with Trump

Q: “You referred to Mr. Mamdani as a Communist. Can you describe why you feel that way?” Trump: “I mean, he's got views that are out there, but who knows. I mean, we're gonna see what works…I feel very confident that he can do a very good job.”

Spinning vortices of water trapped under the Thwaites glacier ice shelf account for 20 per cent of the ice melt. They’re expected to get worse as the world warms

Trump says Zelensky will "have to like" US plan to end war

The Trump administration on Thursday released its plan to open up federal waters off the coast of California to oil drilling, taking a momentous step that state leaders and environmentalists had long expected.

Join us in San Francisco on December 4 for our Big Interview event: a full day of in-depth conversations hosted by WIRED’s editors and journalists. Featured speakers this year include gun safety advocate David Hogg and former DOGE software engineer Sahil Lavingia.

Good morning, Asia. While you were sleeping, this was one of our most-read stories: on.ft.com/4i8oHa2

Double majoring is exploding on college campuses—and it could be Gen Z’s secret weapon in a shaky job market. trib.al/2vGHpaN

If the courts don’t stop them, Hispanic voters may punish them

Founded in 1957, the Civil Rights Division focused initially on ensuring that Black Americans in the South had access to the ballot. Under Trump, it’s working to dismantle gun restrictions.

Gaza storms bring flooding, sewage and misery in tent camps reut.rs/48mDPxg

The average retirement age in the U.S. is 65 for men and 63 for women. But Gen Z has their sights set on an earlier retirement age, a Manulife John Hancock report released Tuesday shows. trib.al/6pB74w7

Children at my son’s Spanish immersion preschool in Chicago bore witness to a teacher being violently assaulted by ICE agents who entered their school, armed with weapons, earlier this month. Miss Diana was abducted by ICE on the morning of November 5 as she prepared to start her shift for the day.

Insurance companies that target poor and unsuspecting families have scammed the government out of hundreds of millions. More than 208,000 people were fraudulently enrolled in the ACA just last year. From Maureen Tkacik: trib.al/kDKjclG

The settlement says NPR and CPB agree that Trump's executive order is unconstitutional and that CPB won't enforce it unless a court orders it to do so. f-st.co/AWNy7OQ

The Real Hunger Crisis: It’s About Access, Not Abundance glblctzn.co/Ot0iGiDClYb #globalcitizen Why is it that we have more food than ever before, yet hunger persists?

Members of the Trump administration have floated the idea of using tariffs to pay down the national debt. But the financial gains being made by tariffs aren’t enough to offset our other costs.

Brendan Carr, the head of the FCC, has “a knack for pulling the strings of power in ways that escape public scrutiny,” @giladedelman.bsky.social reports. Carr's goal isn’t to tell networks what to air and whom to fire—it’s to get to the point where he doesn’t have to.

The Intercept spoke with four SNAP recipients who said they’re furious that Democrats squandered the sacrifice they made for the last month to ensure access to health care for millions of Americans.

PepsiCo's new "Simply NKD" line of Doritos and Cheetos are the same chips you know and love, just without any artificial flavors or dyes. f-st.co/RsNdKzA

"The specter of Jeffrey Epstein is an albatross around Trump’s neck and one of few things that consistently derails his administration," writes @melissaryan.bsky.social in this week's Ctrl Alt Right Delete.

“We have nothing to hide, and it’s time to move on from this Democrat Hoax,” the president wrote on social media.

They didn’t blink when food stamps were cut off, but don’t you dare mess with their private jets #climateinequality #inequalitycrisis www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel... www.oxfam.org/en/take-acti... www.instagram.com/reel/DRBqqIc...