As UN Secretary-General António Guterres hailed Monday’s Security Council resolution paving the way for a consolidated ceasefire via a temporary International Stabilization Force in Gaza, UN aid teams warned that many Palestinian children in the enclave are in no shape to endure another harsh winter.https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2025/11/1166392
The gloomy arguments in favor of solar geoengineering are compelling; so are the even gloomier counter-arguments.https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/a-startups-bid-to-dim-the-sun
A murder in Canada and an attempted one in New York suggest a transnational campaign of violence that has imperilled Indian diplomacy with the West.https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-sikh-separatist-assassination-plot
On seeing Rachel Maddow at the former Vice-President’s funeral, while Donald Trump threatened Democrats on social media with death by hanging.https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/dick-cheneys-long-strange-goodbye
Paul Collier spent decades studying the poorest countries on earth. Now he advises struggling towns in the place where he grew up.https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/a-development-economist-back-from-africa-considers-poverty-at-home
The new AI-DADA tool lets you create a unique Swatch design using AI prompts. You can’t make a custom MoonSwatch yet—but it’s not entirely off the table.https://www.wired.com/story/swatchs-new-openai-powered-tool-lets-you-design-your-own-watch/
Generative AI is making it even easier for attackers to exploit old and often forgotten network equipment. Replacing it takes investment, but Cisco is making the case that it’s worth it.https://www.wired.com/story/cisco-aging-technical-infrastructure/
The draft order, obtained by WIRED, instructs the US Justice Department to sue states that pass laws regulating AI.https://www.wired.com/story/trump-prepares-executive-order-challenging-state-ai-laws/
It will take a lot more than what Donald Trump is doing to convince Putin that it’s in his best interest to stop.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/another-ukraine-peace-scare-eb41e179
What the story is really about is unloved girls, let down by parents and ‘the people who run things.’https://www.wsj.com/opinion/epstein-is-a-failure-of-the-21st-century-elites-71d83d12
The revelations will titillate the public and destroy lives—to no possible good effect.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/washington-goes-tabloid-f130fd11
Govs. Shapiro and Hochul buck the green lobby to keep the lights on.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/democrats-climate-energy-kathy-hochul-josh-shapiro-pipeline-greenhouse-gas-d888a8d8
His latest peace offer fulfills Vladimir Putin’s wishes and leaves Kyiv with a terrible choice.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-issues-an-ultimatum-to-ukraine-aeb196da
Even Mayor Johnson’s allies know his corporate ‘head tax’ is a terrible idea.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/chicago-brandon-johnson-head-tax-city-council-vote-budget-0ec40d41
Reporters put that question to some very old Americans on the day of JFK’s assassination.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/where-were-you-when-william-mckinley-was-shot-10ee28ad
Pennsylvania’s governor boasts that he can ‘get stuff done.’ But the GOP won the budget battle.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/josh-shapiro-lost-his-own-government-shutdown-2dfa37b2
The distinguished historian says the U.S. isn’t like other nations and never has been. There is no American ethnicity to back up the state.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/why-america-is-a-creedal-nation-75676aa8
All that exporting requires capital outflow. But the West is becoming reluctant to allow equity investing.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/china-has-nothing-to-do-with-its-money-but-lend-it-2c2be1a3
They say they want a figure like New York’s mayor-elect. The country already has too many.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/indian-leftists-have-zohran-mamdani-envy-45ef3f30
Robin Aitken, author of ‘The Noble Liar,’ offers some advice.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/if-the-bbc-wants-to-save-itself-heres-an-idea-aitken-trump-editing-4e1ab5c2