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There’s no Command+S shortcut for ethically preserving the web

Migrant children were teargassed; carbon dioxide levels have reached three to five million year high; missionary killed by remote tribe

Among the “anti-imperialist” foreign volunteers in East Ukraine

Theresa May’s Brexit proposal was rejected; Trump suggested raking to prevent forest fires; Jair Bolsonaro insulted Cuban doctors working in Brazil

Janine di Giovanni describes the plight of Christians in the middle east; Mychal Denzel Smith on the burden of the black public intellectual; Kathy Dobie goes inside New York City's task force on bias crimes; Nora Caplan-Bricker considers an ethical archive of the web

Not satisfied with toeing the line, US Customs and Border Protection agents are expanding their reach into the country’s interior

What Amazon HQ2 means for New York City

Profit rolls into Canada’s capital, but at what cost?

The unresolved midterms; Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III replaced; the debut of the world’s first AI television anchor

Is any victory great enough for the man we all love to hate?

Pittsburgh protesters forced Trump’s motorcade to take a detour; “Whitey” Bulger murdered in prison; Kentucky Fried Chicken paid the family of a child named after Colonel Sanders

“I recommend neither the assertions of journalists and pollsters nor big headlines about terror attacks, murders, or caravans of desperate people as a basis for predicting the outcome of the midterm elections.”

Groan if you’ve heard this one before: the Halloween boom in the Rust Belt

Jair Bolsonaro wins; the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in American history; a robot gets a visa

The Saudi-led coalition continues its brutal holding pattern of airstrikes, even in the face of the worst famine in one hundred years

Can’t live with ’em? Maybe we can live without ’em

The Saudi government vacillates on what happened to Jamal Khashoggi; black senior citizens denied early voting in Georgia; some of the Museum of the Bible’s most valuable artifacts declared fakes

Jonathan Taplin on the progressive states’-rights movement; John Cleese proselytizes; Ana Marie Cox on the tragedy of Ted Cruz; a personal history of the Holocaust

Inside the conference rooms of power: the former US ambassador to the United Nations speaks about working with Trump

Relying on personal effects and DNA, forensic scientists work to identify undocumented migrants who passed away in South Texas

Nikki Haley resigns; Jamal Khashoggi murdered; Kanye visits the White House

The mayor of Margaret’s Cove addresses the public slander against him

On Lacy M. Johnson’s The Reckonings, Rebecca Traister’s Good and Mad, and Kristen M. Ghoddsee’s Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism; plus: an interview with the author of The Mars Room

Kavanaugh is confirmed; Earth’s governments are given 12 years to get climate change under control; Bansky trolls Sotheby’s

“The ‘free trade’ policies championed by US leaders from Reagan to Obama, most definitely including the Clintons, have produced many victims.”

A Paris photo agency transitions to the digital age

Indelible in the hippocampus: Kavanaugh, Kavanaugh, Kavanaugh

Notes on aging, memory, and fandom

Brett Kavanaugh’s calendars; Stormy Daniels describes sex with Trump; China sponsors content in the Des Moines Register