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China’s EV Market Is Imploding
NEWS | 26 November 2025
Bloated by excessive investment, distorted by government intervention, and plagued by heavy losses, China’s EV industry appears destined for a crash. What happens in China’s EV sector promises to influence the entire global automobile market. But the wobbles in China’s EV sector demonstrate the downside of China’s state-led economic model. To woo customers in this crowded market, China’s EV companies have been slashing their prices, making profits slim. In the end, China’s EV industry may overrun its competitors, but still be a financial catastrophe.

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Why Trump’s Ukraine Peace Efforts Keep Failing
NEWS | 26 November 2025
Early in Trump’s second term, Russia rejected a deal that would have frozen the battle lines, lifted sanctions on Russia, and kept Ukraine out of NATO. He will not change his mind just because the marginal cost of sanctions increases, or because Ukraine conducts more deep strikes. When Joe Biden was president, Ukraine demanded ironclad security guarantees from the United States in exchange for ending the war. Trump should continue to help Ukraine convince Putin that he has no hope of achieving his objectives on the battlefield. The war in Ukraine is unlikely to end with a singular, spectacular breakthrough.

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The Battle Iranian Women Are Winning
NEWS | 26 November 2025
Western rock music is mostly banned in the Islamic Republic, and women are forbidden to dance in public, smoke, and—most important—bare their hair. Iran’s mandatory-hijab law requires women to cover their head and entire body, except for their face and hands below the wrist. Despite an official ban on celebrating Halloween, thousands of Tehranis, including many unveiled women, donned costumes last week. According to the conservative speaker of Parliament, Iran’s National Security Council has asked for the bill not to be implemented. It has emerged as something of an Iranian politburo, making calls on the issues that divide the country’s ruling class.

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Why Is Colombia’s President Provoking Trump?
NEWS | 26 November 2025
Last month, Donald Trump called Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, an “illegal drug leader.” That gave Colombians reason to worry: The last country whose president Trump accused of running a drug enterprise was Venezuela, and those accusations served as justification to send a flotilla of warships to lurk by its coasts and blow up boats. “If not, Trump should be ousted.”Read: The president who did everything right and got no thanksThe moment was rather stunning, not least because the Colombian president seemed so blasé. Petro’s supporters tend to argue that America is the one insulting Colombia’s president, and they are inclined to rally around him. The United States is “by far our biggest commercial partner,” he said: Every year, the U.S. buys about one-third of Colombia’s exports. Read: Strong-arming Latin America will work until it doesn’tOne particularly ironic consequence of Trump and Petro’s quarrel is already being felt.

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Venezuela’s Grim Prospect
NEWS | 26 November 2025
For a quarter century, our government has been using the threat of an American military attack to justify more and more authoritarian control over the country. Perhaps the idea is to use military pressure to push somebody within the Venezuelan security apparatus to move against Maduro. If and when American bombs start to fall, Venezuela’s military counterintelligence system will certainly be put to the test. An American assault would then be remembered mostly for helping Maduro identify the next set of tenants for his torture chambers. That’s a grim prospect—but then, in Venezuela, yesterday’s grimmest prospects become tomorrow’s headlines with dreadful regularity.

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SPONSORED | 26 November 2025
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How to Age Up
NEWS | 26 November 2025
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NEWS | 26 November 2025
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ICE and Border Patrol Don’t Operate the Same Way
NEWS | 26 November 2025
Nick Miroff: The administration enlisted the Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino to lead the operations in Los Angeles and Chicago. Will: There appears to be public confusion about who’s actually heading up the Trump administration’s broader immigration efforts: ICE or Border Patrol. (One ICE veteran told me, dismissively, that the Border Patrol agents are doing “area control,” in contrast with the “targeted enforcement” that ICE practices.) That is a big difference between the way ICE operates and the way Border Patrol operates. Border Patrol officers are going to areas—they are swarming Home Depots, for example, and anybody who’s at Home Depot is a suspect.

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People Are Underestimating America’s Groyper Problem
NEWS | 26 November 2025
And many overtly racist accounts championing Nick Fuentes, the young white supremacist and Hitler aficionado, were revealed to be foreign-run. They’re cosplaying as America First in order to discredit MAGA.”The notion that American anti-Semitism is an outside influence operation rather than a homegrown menace is a comforting story. But the rise of American anti-Semitism is not a foreign phenomenon, and it is not an online illusion. Viral Groyper content only goes viral in the first place because it appeals to Americans who share the sentiment. For the online marketplace of ideas to function, users need to know what’s authentic and what’s inauthentic, what’s foreign and what’s domestic.

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Senator Mark Kelly Is in the Wrong Job
NEWS | 26 November 2025
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth apparently thinks that Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona is in the wrong job. Hegseth has a point: Maybe Kelly shouldn’t be in Congress. But the secretary is wrong about putting the senator back in the naval service. In a more sensible and serious world (and, yes, I know this is not the one we live in right now), Hegseth would be fired—and Kelly would take Hegseth’s job as secretary of defense. He has plenty of options—including Mark Kelly.

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Today’s Atlantic Trivia: Cauliflower, Bachelor of Arts
NEWS | 26 November 2025
None of the chunks in the great minestrone that is The Atlantic is going anywhere, though, so enjoy leisurely encoding them in your much more capacious long-term memory. Find last week’s questions here, and to get Atlantic Trivia in your inbox every day, sign up for The Atlantic Daily. And if you think up a great question after reading an Atlantic story—or simply want to share a dazzling fact—send it my way at [email protected]. — From George Packer’s “An Anatomy of the MAGA Mind” The moviemaking industry known as Nollywood is based in what country—the most populous of its continent? The former is India’s Gujarati-language industry, named for its frequent use of the drum known as a dhol.

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Chatbots Are Becoming Really, Really Good Criminals
NEWS | 26 November 2025
And it appears that they used Anthropic’s own AI product, Claude Code, to do most of the work. And it’s not just that AI tools are powerful. Several cybersecurity experts told me the technology could be a boon for network defense in the long run. The better attackers get at using AI models, and the better the technology itself becomes, the harder intrusions will be to guard against. (And then those AI tools could be used by hackers to find security flaws in those patches.

Current Events:
Trump Doesn’t Understand Inflation
NEWS | 26 November 2025
Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term. Americans are very unhappy with Donald Trump, and they’re very unhappy with him for one reason in particular: the cost of living. Instead, it’s a 50-year mortgage. Fifteen years of payments on a 50-year mortgage would chip away less than 10 percent of the principal—making the arrangement not that much different from renting, in economic terms. If the conventional argument for homeownership is that it helps people build wealth over time, the 50-year mortgage makes that harder, not easier.

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Trump and Hegseth’s Hysterical Reaction to an Ad
NEWS | 26 November 2025
Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term. Trump ran for office in 2016 openly and repeatedly calling for the military to illegally torture prisoners for intelligence purposes. Ed Martin, the U.S. pardon attorney at the Justice Department, publicly articulated this attitude when he claimed, “No MAGA left behind.”Jonathan Chait: Trump’s campaign of vengeance is already backfiringIn Hegseth, Trump has found a willing partner. In his book, The War on Warriors, Hegseth argues that the military should enjoy a wide berth to commit war crimes. In his first term, Trump was rebuffed by top military officials when he suggested the military might shoot peaceful protesters.