The Atlantic’s November Cover: Josh Tyrangiel Profiles Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk on Their Race to Control Outer Space—And Measures Who Is Ahead (www.theatlantic.com)
Eroding support from working-class, white voters—a pillar of the Trump coalition—could be a danger sign for Republicans. Read more in today’s WSJ Politics Newsletter: (on.wsj.com)
The Trump administration must maintain White House access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico while a legal challenge plays out over Trump’s attempt to ban the news outlets, a federal judge ruled (on.wsj.com)
Georgia’s Democratic senator Jon Ossoff says he has ‘zero interest’ in running for president and is focused on being re-elected to the Senate in the midterms (on.wsj.com)
Cold Kills Batteries, Screen Glare Destroys Night Vision: I Built HushHike with Render, ElevenLabs & Mastra to Navigate the Alpine in 30 Seconds (dev.to)
The Doxing of Jane Doe - The alleged perpetrators in the “Cornell Seven” case were doxed. But so was the victim. And the person who doxed her. And people with no connection to the case at all. (www.newyorker.com)
Marco Rubio’s Wild, Wild West - In Greece, the Secretary of State cast the West as a civilization defined by its warriors and conquerors, not by its democracies. (www.newyorker.com)
The Secret History of Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock - At the Met, a landmark exhibition doesn’t just show that the painters were equals. It makes it impossible to imagine their art existing without their marriage. (www.newyorker.com)
Reasons You Might Be Calling Me Instead of Texting - You’re feeling too lazy to text, and you know perfectly well that I’m just going to let it go to voice mail and then text my response anyway. (www.newyorker.com)
What a Public Execution Looks Like - Dexter Filkins on Pete Hegseth’s planned public execution of Nidal Hasan and his memory of a public execution by the Taliban in Kabul. (www.newyorker.com)
Tom McCarthy’s Meaningless Men - For decades, the novelist has dismantled the tropes of realist fiction, writing about mysterious individuals trapped in byzantine systems. In “The Rhyl Poster,” that approach may have reached its limit. (www.newyorker.com)
Is This the Beginning of the End of Indian Democracy? - The Modi government has removed more than a hundred million people from voter rolls and is cracking down on a vigorous protest movement. (www.newyorker.com)
Encountering the Past in “Music Against the Night” - John Field and Adelaide Percheron, the protagonists in my new book, were born in the eighteenth century. Was I writing a historical novel? (www.newyorker.com)
“The Journey” Update: The D.A. Brings Charges - Three weeks after we released The Journey, Guojun Xuan and Silvia Zhang were arrested, and local prosecutors charged them with child abuse. (www.newyorker.com)
An Unlikely Taylor Swift Fan Gets Out of Prison, in “Daylight” - Joe Garcia, who wrote about finding Swift’s music after a murder conviction, searches for redemption in a new short film by Jon Kasbe. (www.newyorker.com)
Some Mangled Foreign Title Translations - “Dune: Part Two” to “Those Mad Worms Won’t Stop, Mate” (Australia): You think those dodgy snakes in the outback are devo? You ain’t seen nothing, mate! (www.newyorker.com)
How Tree Rings Challenged the Myth of American Wilderness - By studying fire scars in ancient wood, many scientists have become convinced that Indigenous people transformed North America long before Christopher Columbus arrived. (www.newyorker.com)
How a Canadian TV Show May Have Helped Foil the FlyDubai Terrorist Attack - The documentary series “Air Crash Investigations” has attracted a cult following by obsessively dissecting historic plane crashes. Then a fan of the show found himself aboard a hijacked plane headed for Israel. (www.newyorker.com)
Hollywood’s Tech-Founder Fixation Takes a Dark Turn - Tech-entrepreneur bio-pics used to give us flawed men who built great products. But the latest wave of movies, from “The Social Reckoning” to “Artificial,” recast Silicon Valley titans as unambiguous villains, and suggest that the products themselves are the threat. (www.newyorker.com)
My Education on the Border of the Syrian War - In the last Turkish town on the road to Aleppo, jihadis and spies mixed with reporters trying to prove themselves. (www.newyorker.com)
Deana Lawson’s Subjects of Surveillance - In a new series featuring security-camera stills of suspected shoplifters, the photographer seems more interested in the surface than in the soul. (www.newyorker.com)
The First Candid - In 1838, Louis Daguerre snapped a photo of a Parisian street, empty but for a shoeshine boy and his client. Now that some sleuths have zeroed in on the location, the city is marking it with a plaque. (www.newyorker.com)