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Elon Musk Is Trying to Rewrite History
NEWS | 22 November 2025
We cannot say for sure if Elon Musk dialed up the flattery quotient on his chatbot, Grok, after the author Joyce Carol Oates publicly humiliated him this month. The answer to all of these questions is Elon, according to Grok (which exists as both a stand-alone service and an interactive account on X). Musk wields that power recklessly and brazenly, bending his platforms and tools to his own ends. If successful, Grok and Grokipedia will work in tandem to write and rewrite both real-time and historical information, apparently according to their creator’s beliefs. Yesterday, Musk appeared to break his toy.

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Two Genres That Aren’t So Different After All
NEWS | 22 November 2025
This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. I agree that stories can offer both excitement and introspection, and I wonder if those who believe in a sharp division between plotty and plotless novels might be doing themselves a disservice. Conversely, many stories that could be called plotless are hardly lacking in activity—smaller moments simply take on greater weight. A great work, however, paces out action to build suspense while making the stakes feel real within the characters’ minds. Illustration by Jérôme BerthierEight Plot-Heavy Books That Will Keep You Turning PagesBy M. L. RioSome readers enjoy plotless, heady fiction.

World:
Are Sports the Most Valuable Commodity in the World?
NEWS | 22 November 2025
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube |Are sports the most valuable commodity in the world? Or it could be, you know, I’m here to talk about most recently—in the case of this weird thing I’m into now with Phil Mickelson, the golfer. And you know, that’s another experiment that I am enjoying, and is very different in that key way. Or, you know, you’re gonna have, like, the ticker where it’s got the, you know, the “bet” logo on it or whatever it is. And when you do that, I think you’re just changing what the product is.

Current Events:
Zelensky’s Blind Spot
NEWS | 22 November 2025
Corruption probes have on occasion targeted Zelensky’s administration, and he has often clashed with the agency behind the latest one, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU). “It’s just infuriating,” a person close to one of the senators who spoke with Zelensky told me. “He didn’t want to just throw him away.”Corruption scandals have often provoked Zelensky’s sense of loyalty. “It’s gone to his head,” one of Zelensky’s close aides told me recently. In the eighth episode of the show’s second season, Zelensky’s character, the accidental president, struggles to persuade members of Parliament to pass tough laws against corruption.

News Flash:
The Old Guard Is Not Gone Yet
NEWS | 22 November 2025
Here’s yet another indication that Washington has been turned upside down in recent years: I saw Rachel Maddow at Dick Cheney’s funeral and didn’t give it a second thought. Every living vice president lined the front pews of the sanctuary, except the current one, J. D. Vance, who, like his boss, was not invited. “Dick Cheney wasn’t just my grandpa. “I’m pretty sure he’s the only person who ever had the title vice president turned rodeo grandpa,” she said. The fellow asked the soon-to-be vice president what he did for a living.

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SPONSORED | 22 November 2025
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The Wicked Bubble Has Burst
NEWS | 22 November 2025
Okay, maybe that second part, Wicked: For Good, isn’t quite that drastic a chore. Wicked is loosely based on Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel, which imagines an origin myth for the Wicked Witch of the West. Wicked: For Good opens as the stage production’s second act does: after Elphaba has fully earned her status as a villain, having defied the dictatorial Wizard (Jeff Goldblum). Read: The big risk Wicked is takingThe broad, political bent of Maguire’s book is flattened out by the adaptation, as is most of the world-building. For Good, chained to the Wicked musical’s own failings, cannot expand upon the strangeness of The Wizard of Oz in any novel way.

Breaking:
The GOP Is Realizing That Trump Won’t Be Around Forever
NEWS | 22 November 2025
Trump says that Greene is angry over his refusal to endorse her for a Senate seat or for the governorship of Georgia. The innovations of MAGA-nomics—protectionism, immigration restriction, industrial policy—are not yet Republican orthodoxy and might not last after Trump leaves office. This explains the jockeying of Ted Cruz, the Republican senator from Texas who placed second in the bitter 2016 primary against Trump. He has sharply criticized Carlson and Fuentes for spreading anti-Semitism (whereas Trump has tried to dismiss the controversy). In the Ohio Republican Senate primary in 2022, he was in third place until Trump’s endorsement lifted him to first.

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Trump’s Devastating Plan for Ukraine
NEWS | 22 November 2025
According to multiple news outlets, Trump has blessed a 28-point plan to end the war between the two countries. Conquering Ukraine has always been Putin’s plan. Thomas Wright: Why Trump’s Ukraine peace efforts keep failingUkraine’s fate is not yet sealed, and many obstacles could prevent this deal from being implemented. Also, even if Trump demands that Ukraine and the rest of Europe accept his plan, they are hardly guaranteed to do so. He wants to work with Putin, even if that means devastating Ukraine, and now he no longer cares who knows it.

This Just In:
A Piece of Internet History the Internet Almost Forgot
NEWS | 22 November 2025
The magazine began in response to one information revolution; the website appeared at the dawn of another. The internet, notable for remembering just about everything, seems to have forgotten that particular piece of its own history. The totality of the internet—as both a gathering of information and a way of life—has made imagining the phases of its history almost impossible. In December 1995, that year was hailed by Newsweek as “the Year of the Internet,” marking the decisive turning point in online life. No one quite knew how to talk about what the internet was, mixing metaphors about the information superhighway on which you surfed.

Today:
The Last Device You’ll Ever Need
NEWS | 22 November 2025
But the real selling point was AI—embedded in the physical device is a more personalized version of Meta’s proprietary chatbot. So far, Meta’s glasses appear to be the most successful of the new crop of physical AI products. The allure of a life unchained from screens, and the growing utility of chatbots, could drive more customers toward the nascent category of AI devices. Whatever comes next in the race for the ultimate AI device will have to stand on its own, outside of the established phone-laptop dyad. Without a way to persuade users to reject the screens they already have, an AI device will only add to the digital overload.

Top Stories:
The CDC’s Website Is Anti-Vaccine Now
NEWS | 22 November 2025
But instead of keeping his promise, Kennedy—who oversees the CDC as head of HHS—appears to be using the CDC website to advance his own anti-vaccine beliefs. Technically, the statement “Vaccines do not cause autism” has not been removed from the CDC website. During his confirmation hearing, he insisted that he is not anti-vaccine, though he sidestepped questions about whether immunizations cause autism, saying that he would look at the data. But if they were a dog whistle, the new CDC website is a siren. Children’s Health Defense praised the website change on X, calling it “the biggest public health reversal of our lifetime.” It is indeed.

World:
The Big Risk Wicked Is Taking
NEWS | 22 November 2025
Jon M. Chu always knew that the second Wicked film wouldn’t fully resemble the first. I think the biggest fear was: Are the Wicked fans going to want this to be as deep and as truthful as I see the material? It’s like the first Wicked is a Trojan horse, delivering big, bubbly musical elements before revealing, in the second film, the trickier messages inherent to the show’s second act. In a weird way, Wicked was always the second movie. The second movie is about: How much bravery and courage does it take to pop your bubble?

Current Events:
Women Keep Ruining the Workplace!!
NEWS | 22 November 2025
Women are ruining the workplace. Sorry, sorry. Women are ruining the workplace, standing 305 feet tall in New York Harbor insisting that people immigrate to your country. Women are ruining the workplace, crashing into icebergs and foundering on rocks—no, that is ships. Women are ruining the workplace, biting you on the arm, sipping your blood.

News Flash:
The Ghislaine Maxwell Emails
NEWS | 22 November 2025
The emails that Ghislaine Maxwell has been sending over the past several months from a minimum-security prison near Houston are stamped Sensitive But Unclassified. Maxwell has praised the warden in emails to family, saying Hall is “as good as they come.”What did the warden do to earn Maxwell’s affection? Among other things, the inmate’s emails suggest, Hall provided Maxwell with secretarial services. As they worked on their argument, Maxwell told her lawyer that she would transmit relevant records “through the warden.”Trump, who once socialized with Epstein and Maxwell, hasn’t ruled out a pardon for her. Maxwell wrote cryptically in some of the messages, as if aware that they could one day be disseminated.