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Fred Turner explains how the internet subverts democracy; Michel Houellebecq admires Donald Trump; Barry Lopez reports from Antartica

Two-brain solution: two nights of insightful conversation with the esteemed comedian and the internationally renowned psychiatrist

“Who, save for the little barons of Wall Street, believes in the progressive virtues of capitalism?”

John Kelly resigned; “ballot harvesting” uncovered in North Carolina; a robot ran over bear repellent at an Amazon warehouse

“The Democratic Party is best understood as an assemblage of baronies, the three most important of which—California, New York, and Illinois—dole out the most patronage and political favors in return for filling the party’s coffers and guaranteeing the reelection of its most cherished adherents.”

George H. W. Bush died; military law enforcement officers broke up a catfishing ring; a London ambulance trainee went rogue

The careful act of paying respects to kin while under curfew in Kashmir

Life during wartime is more complicated than easily digestible, Hollywood heroism

No bleaker than it’s ever been

In Jharkhand, women take on the timber mafia

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