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Issue #202 - November 2025
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Stories from Around the World that Affect Us |
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The fall of the CBS News climate team
David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news.
As Hurricane Melissa raced toward Jamaica on Monday, CBS News senior coordinating producer Tracy Wholf sent an email to the newsroom, detailing the historic storm’s scientific connection to climate change.
It was the last. Two days later, as Hurricane Melissa smashed into the Caribbean, Wholf was laid off, along with the majority of the five person team supporting CBS News’s climate coverage. Today, the only person remaining at CBS News to cover climate change is national environmental correspondent David Schechter, who no longer has a dedicated producer. In addition to Wholf’s layoff, two producers supporting the climate team were let go, and another dedicated climate producer was reassigned.
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 Trump Is Failing FastTHE NEW REPUBLIC (Politics)
Trump has done enormous damage. But he’s unpopular, the courts are checking him, and freako-extremists like Curtis Yarvin have thrown in the towel. Decades ago, in peak Cold War days, Soviet chess whiz Garry Kasparov noticed that his rival, Anatoly Karpov, had a paralyzing fear. At the 1985 championship, he drove Karpov into a defensive crouch, beat him, and took the title. As chair of the Renew Democracy Initiative, Kasparov, now a journalist and an anti-Putin political activist, continues to pinpoint his opponents’ fears and spell out how to exploit them. He maintains that President Trump, like other autocrats, most fears democracy. It’s that anxiety that puts torque on everything he does. |
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 Andrew should answer Epstein questions in US
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Slowing Climate Change is Not Working Fast Enough
Environment
By virtually every key metric, efforts to fight climate change are going too slowly, according to findings by a coalition of climate groups. In some cases, things are moving in the wrong direction. In the 10 years since the signing of the Paris Agreement, the backbone of international climate action, humanity has made impressive progress. Renewable energy is increasingly cheap and reliable, while electric vehicles are becoming better every year.
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China and the United States Yascha Mounk Politics |
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In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Dan Wang explore the conflict between the United States as a society of lawyers and China as a society of engineers, what this means for their relationship, and why the two countries are more similar than they may first appear. Image by Leonardo |
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Quote of The Week
If you think you’ll have more time to live when you retire, you’ll be disappointed. Because you’ll spend most of it trying to stay alive.
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Top Stories from our favourite publications to stimulate your curious mind, |
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The Great Feminization Hasn’t Gone Far Enough
What if we listened to both men and women on how to build a fair society? Many issues facing society today—especially wokeness—are in fact driven by the feminization of society. “all cancellations are feminine. Cancel culture is simply what women do whenever there are enough of them in a given organization or field.” J. Stone.
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Politics As Self-Deception
PERSUASION (Politics)
“The finger-pointing over free speech exemplifies a fundamental truth about human nature. Accusations of hypocrisy over free speech are being hurled across the Western political spectrum. Nick Clegg, the liberal former deputy prime minister of Britain, where I live, recently accused American conservatives such as JD Vance of “rank hypocrisy” for criticizing UK speech laws while stifling dissent at home. Meanwhile, in The New York Times, conservative commentator Bret Stephens cataloged examples of progressives justifying censorship in recent years until they suddenly “cared about free speech again” when Jimmy Kimmel was taken off-air. |
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We are being hunted
DAILY MAVERICK (Human Rights)
At the Human Rights Defenders People’s Hearing, activists from mining-affected communities told harrowing stories of intimidation and violence. Civil society groups are now pushing Parliament to pass a law recognising and protecting those who risk their lives defending justice and the environment. “When I was in hiding, I wanted to test the people who were targeting us. I went to my house and parked outside just to see what they would do. They came and shot in and around the house because they thought I was inside. This is how crazy they are.” Says Israel Nkosi, a member of the Mfolozi Community Environmental Justice Organisation |
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The Greatest 20th century Fction Writer
Ernest Hemingway was the most important and influential 20th-century American fiction writer. He is our Kafka, our Proust, our Borges, our Joyce, our Premchand, our Hamsun, our Lu Xun, our Soseki, our Achebe. If we look at the impact that various 20th-century American fiction writers had on our literature and our national consciousness, there’s Hemingway far up at the top, and maybe Faulkner or Morrison in a distant second place. His truly great work was written over a period of about fifteen years, from 1925 to 1940.
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How to Live
THE MARGINALIAN (Philosophy)
Despite all the technologies of thought and feeling we have invented to divine an answer — philosophy and poetry, scripture and self-help — life stares mutely back at us, immense and indifferent, having abled us with opposable thumbs and handicapped us with a consciousness capable of self-reference that renders us dissatisfied with the banality of mere survival. Beneath the overstory of one hundred trillion synapses, the overthinking animal keeps losing its way in the wilderness of want.
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Open Societies Are Stronger Than They Appear
PERSUASION (Philosophy/Politics)
Across the modern New Right, or the climate-activist left, there is a widespread belief that the very characteristics which were once hailed as America’s strengths are weaknesses. Pluralism, it’s often said, makes our society disparate and fractious. The rule of law hampers the government’s ability to solve big problems. And erratic election results remove leaders before they have a chance to implement lasting change. Some populists, fearing weakness more than totalitarianism, want to eliminate the diversity of our society in favor of unity. There’s a tendency among environmental activists to believe that the scale of the climate crisis requires doing away with free choice and democratic governance. But in all cases, these critics mistake strength for weakness. |
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 The Formation of the United Nations – A Revealing Overview
The formation of the United Nations (UN) marked a significant milestone in global governance, fostering international peace and security, and promoting cooperation among nations. Established on October 24, 1945, the UN emerged from the ashes of World War II. |
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The IntruderBy Freida McFadden
"A dark and stormy night. An isolated cabin in the woods. A runaway child with a mysterious past...Thriller fans, buckle up!" ― Jason Rekulak, New York Times bestselling author of The Last One at the Wedding
Casey's cabin in the wilderness is not built for a hurricane. Her roof shakes, the lights flicker, and the tree outside her front door sways ominously in the wind. But she's a lot more worried about the girl she discovers lurking outside her kitchen window. She's young. She's alone. And she's covered in blood. |
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Kil the HeroesBy David Thurlo
Charlie Henry, co-owner of a pawnshop and Iraq war veteran, has, for the most part, settled into his somewhat quieter life in Albuquerque. He is invited to attend the dedication of a memorial in a park, where he, other local heroes, and first responders are to be honored for their military accomplishments and dedication to the community. But trouble always seems to follow Charlie. When gunshots ring out, barely missing Charlie and hitting the man next to him, it's clear that a dangerous madman is on the loose. More shots are fired, and two more veterans are injured.Charlie thinks he might have been the target and looks around for the shooter. The crowd is in a panic, and he's unable to spot the gunman. Charlie tries to help the man who took the first hits, Nathan Whitaker, a decorated former Army helicopter pilot who has been badly wounded. No one is dead, at least not yet. But Charlie vows to find the evil person who would attack American heroes—he refuses to go down without a fight and knows that the perpetrator will soon learn that he has messed with the wrong man.
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