2. This Is What Actual Christianity Is Supposed to Sound Like A stirring sermon from an Episcopalian pulpit last Sunday about “faith, basic morality, and decency” that we thought was worth reprinting
3. If you are reading this it is because I’m dead: here’s what I want to tell you about how to live Carlos Hernández
6. ‘Grind the country to a halt’: Democrat urges national strike if Trump meddles in midterms Democrats
18. ‘Definitely not working smarter’: Thousands of ICE agents join forum to complain about their jobs, report says
22. ICE dragged me from my car after I told agents I’m autistic. I thought, ‘I just have to make it through this alive’
23. Ukrainians warned for years that Europe''s human rights chief was a Kremlin conduit. The Epstein files just proved them right.
24. The Epstein Files Fallout Hits the Innocent - Victim names. Nude photos. Wild accusations. This isn’t justice. [WSJ Editorial Board opinion piece]
32. Trans People Saw the Nancy Mace Crack-Up Coming Long, Long Ago: First, Public Figure A smears trans people. The culture doesn’t care. Then comes the racism or antisemitism. But transphobia is a gateway drug.
35. ''Monster''s Paradise,'' lampooning US President Donald Trump, has world premiere at Hamburg Opera
37. Everyone is stealing TV Fed up with increasing subscription prices, viewers embrace rogue streaming boxes.
49. How to tear gas children After ICE gassed a family-friendly protest in broad daylight, Portland is up in arms.
50. Some companies claim they can ‘resurrect’ species. Does that make people more comfortable with extinction?
62. Society ‘disappears’ ageing women. So I harnessed that cloak of invisibility to do all sorts of ‘inappropriate’ things
67. Technology built the cashless society. Advances are helping the unhoused so they're not left behind
78. A violent murder, a child on death row - Paula Cooper was 15 when she murdered 77-year-old Ruth Pelke in her Indiana home, and was sentenced to death. But a campaign for her life came from an unexpected quarter
79. Does the American dream foster inequality? New research shows US citizens are alone among wealthy western nations in being largely unmoved by income disparities
85. Green Colonialism | In Sweden’s Arctic, a battle for the Earth’s climate rages, and a question looms: Are we simply trading out one extractive industry for another?
86. After the Hit-and-Run - Can restorative justice offer crash victims like me—and the drivers who harmed us—the healing we need?
90. I Can’t Control the World, But I Can Leave Stickers on It — A perfectionist lets go and helps make the city a little more chaotic, one goofy graphic at a time.
96. “Imagine a Child Gets Stabbed 26 Times”:A 6-year-old boy’s killing outside Chicago stunned the country. The people left behind can barely fathom the future.
101. “Someone tell me what to do” - Uvalde shooting shows contrast in preparedness between students and police
113. A Christian Health Nonprofit Saddled Thousands With Debt as It Built a Family Empire Including a Pot Farm, a Bank and an Airline
115. The Green New Deal Is the Opiate of the Masses. In the Global North, measures to stop climate change cannot double as ways to further economic growth
124. Whatever your view of the Israel-Hamas war, rape is rape. To trivialise it is to diminish ourselves
127. Dondi Ritual: एक अनुष्ठान जिसके दौरान पुजारी माता-पिता के सामने बच्चे पर पैर रखता है | Viral Video 2023
134. CCP’s Strategic Tactics, Targeting of Non-CCP Intellectuals, and Social Media Cognitive Warfare — The CCP BioThreats Initiative
149. Nepal: Pro-monarchy activists likely to stage further protests in Kathmandu through mid-December
150. What Happens to a School Shooter’s Sister? Twenty-five years ago, Kristin Kinkel’s brother, Kip, killed their parents and opened fire at their high school. Today, she is close with Kip—and still reckoning with his crimes.
151. When does life end? A father didn’t believe his daughter was dead. He says the hospital still harvested her organs
160. The Izz al-Din al-Qasam Brigades released a photo of a thank you letter written by a former prisoner in the Gaza Strip...
163. A new book describes the crackpot anthropological theories that Nazis used to justify their belief in Aryan racial superiority.
167. Scientists paid large publishers over $1 billion in four years to have their studies published with open access
168. In the late 1960s, Denmark implemented a brutal contraceptive policy to limit births in its former colony of Greenland, forcing thousands of teenage girls to have IUDs inserted without their consent. Women are now speaking out
169. UK Supreme Court finds Deliveroo riders have no rights to collective bargaining because they aren’t workers
171. The violence against Indigenous women in Killers of the Flower Moon isn’t just historical. It’s an ongoing crisis.
172. Left Behind and United by Populism? Populism’s Multiple Roots in Feelings of Lacking Societal Recognition
177. Armenia's leader snubs meeting of Russia-dominated security grouping over a rift with the Kremlin
191. The Harvard Law Review Refused to Run This Piece About Genocide in Gaza: The piece was nearing publication when the journal decided against publishing it. You can read the article here.
192. Israel is the only country that systematically prosecutes minors in military courts. An estimated 500-700 Palestinian children are tried annually, the most common charge being stone-throwing, which carries a 20-year prison sentence!
193. A Fired ‘Scream’ Star, Clients Booted From Agencies and a Secret Tom Cruise Meeting: Inside Hollywood’s Divide Over Israel
195. White House declassifies intel suggesting Wagner Group is preparing to provide air defense capability to Hezbollah or Iran | CNN Politics
199. A man convicted in absentia for his role in the 1975 murder of the president of Bangladesh and most of his family is living free in Toronto. An investigation by The Fifth Estate raises questions about Canada’s silence in the case
200. "The Iron wall" by Ze’ev Jabotinsky, Ukrainian Zionist author who admits in 1923 that Israel is a colonial project and Arabs resist Israel because they are native in the same sense the Aztecs are to America
219. When Jesus comes back to Earth, can a group of Christians plan on suing him while remaining devout?
220. Physicians’ Refusal to Wear Masks to Protect Vulnerable Patients—An Ethical Dilemma for the Medical Profession
222. Haaretz: Police investigation revealed that Israeli combat helicopters killed Israeli civilians and Hamas likely did not have prior knowledge of the music festival!
227. Israel's War on American Students Activist. In a bombshell, The nation reports that Israel is operating a phony front group in the US to spy on pro-Palestinian students on college campuses
236. In the home of hamburgers and sausages, plant-based meat sales are growing. How did Germany do it?
242. Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez just blew up the internet by describing their ‘pretty normal’ typical day amid surging billionaire backlash
246. Sydney's plus-size community tackles fat stigma with life drawing and 'fat babes speed-friending'
248. Dead Perverts Society: A review of "Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy" by Costin Alamariu
267. How big is science’s fake-paper problem? : An unpublished analysis suggests that there are hundreds of thousands of bogus ‘paper-mill’ articles lurking in the literature
271. ‘Tyranny of the Minority: How American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point’ by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
275. Whither philosophy? The Discipline Today Finds Itself Precariously Balanced Between Incomprehensible Specialization and Cheap Self-Help
283. Spain; The murderer of Arturo Ruiz maintains that he worked for the Civil Guard in the dirty war against ETA. Police databases have no record of José Ignacio Fernández Guaza, who claims he executed terrorists in the south of France in the mid-1970s
288. Inside the angst and anxiety gripping the Biden administration over the Israel-Hamas war | CNN Politics
292. 'I’m calling from Israeli intelligence. We have the order to bomb. You have two hours': a dentist in Gaza is directed to evacuate his neighborhood from a bombing campaign.
298. The world is turning against Israel’s war in Gaza – and many Israelis don’t understand why | CNN
