Source: Washington Post
by Ian Ayres & Saikrishna Prakash
“We are caught in a vicious cycle. The in-group is using the law against the out-group, which will surely feel empowered to respond in kind once the tables turn again. Americans widely believe that prosecutions are increasingly being weaponized, even if they disagree about who started it. To stop the spiral and restore confidence, we propose a novel prosecutorial check.” (11/28/25)
Source: SFGate
“Pope Leo XIV Sunday arrived in Beirut as he continues first foreign trip to bring a message of peace the region at a time of war and escalating tensions. Leo touched down in Lebanon after a visit to Turkey to mark an important Christian anniversary at a time where the predominantly Sunni Muslim country of over 85 million has positioned itself as a key intermediary in talks to end the conflicts in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip. … Lebanon, a Muslim-majority country where about a third of the population is Christian, has always been a priority for the Vatican, a bulwark for Christians throughout the region. After years of conflict, Christian communities that date from the time of the Apostles have shrunk.” (11/30/25)
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
by Paige Collings
“In late September, the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced his government’s plans to introduce a new digital ID scheme in the country to take effect before the end of the Parliament (no later than August 2029). The scheme will, according to the Prime Minister, ‘cut the faff’ in proving people’s identities by creating a virtual ID on personal devices with information like people’s name, date of birth, nationality or residency status, and photo to verify their right to live and work in the country. This is the latest example of a government creating a new digital system that is fundamentally incompatible with a privacy-protecting and human rights-defending democracy.” (11/28/25)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/uk-has-it-wrong-digital-id-heres-why
Source: The American Prospect
by Robert J Lopez
“The summer sun burned through the clouds in California’s Salinas Valley, where a bounty of berries and leafy green vegetables grows across this rich farmland renowned as the ‘Salad Bowl of the World.’ Jose, a quiet 14-year-old, was squatting and bending over for hours with other workers in a sprawling strawberry field. The pickers, many of them also minors, snapped berries from plants and placed them in plastic cartons, eight of them in a cardboard box. They moved quickly along the long rows that lined the field. Jose was exhausted but working as fast as he could; he was being paid $2.40 for each box he filled. As he ran with a full box, he fell on the uneven ground and twisted his ankle. It hurt for days, he later recalled, but he didn’t say anything to his boss for fear of losing his job.” (11/28/25)
https://prospect.org/2025/11/28/california-child-farmworkers-exposed-toxic-pesticides-part-1/
Source: NBC News
“President Donald Trump announced Friday that he was canceling executive orders signed using President Joe Biden’s autopen. Like other presidents, including Trump, Biden used an autopen to sign certain official documents. Republicans have claimed the autopen was used by the people around Biden to circumvent a mentally declining president. … There’s no public record of how many documents were signed by autopen during Biden’s presidency.” (11/28/25)
Source: The UnPopulist
“A Persecution Complex Links the Pilgrims and Christian Nationalism: A Conversation With Tyler Huckabee.” (11/28/25)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/a-persecution-complex-links-the-pilgrims
Source: Antiwar.com
by Andy Worthington
“On November 18, the UN General Assembly, which represents all 193 member states of the UN, overwhelmingly passed a worthy resolution affirming ‘the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination,’ including ‘the right to their independent State of Palestine.’ … Shamefully, however, just the day before, on November 17, eleven of the countries that voted for the General Assembly resolution — the UK, France, Algeria, Denmark, Greece, Guyana, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, Somalia and South Korea — voted for a Security Council resolution introduced by the US which, as the international lawyer Itay Epshtain explained on X, explicitly ‘aims to extinguish, suspend, or condition’ the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination, including the right to their independent State of Palestine.” (11/28/25)
Source: Associated Press
“Israeli forces on Thursday killed a pair of Palestinian men in the occupied West Bank after they appeared to surrender to troops, drawing Palestinian accusations that the men were executed ‘in cold blood.’ The Israeli military said it was investigating. … In a video shown on Palestine TV, which has no sound, the two men come out of a garage holding their hands up and lifting their shirts to show they are not carrying explosives. They are ordered to the ground and kicked by one of the policemen. They are then ordered back to the garage. In a video shown by Egyptian TV station Al-Ghad, the men are ordered back to the entrance of the garage. As they are on the ground and surrounded by troops, gunshots are heard and the men slump down, apparently lifeless. At least one soldier is seen firing his weapon.” (11/27/25)
https://apnews.com/article/mideast-wars-israel-gaza-11-27-2025-7facef5a4a34f70fea8b2ea0b920002f
Source: Orange County Register
by Agustina Vergara Cid
“I’ve been asked a few times why I chose to become an American at this juncture — after witnessing the decline of our institutions, freedom and values at the hands of leaders across the political spectrum. I still chose to become an American because I know that what’s been happening in many realms in this country is not what America is about. I know that forcing businesses to close, as happened during the pandemic, is not the essence of America, but a betrayal of it. I know that cracking down on freedom of speech and having masked agents roaming the streets is anathema to our core values. … Every attack on freedom and individual rights that we see in our country (now and historically) is not a consequence of American founding values, but of the deviation from them.” (11/27/25)
Source: Antiwar.com
“US Pushing Plan for Building in Israeli-Occupied Gaza, US Bombs Somalia for 101st Time, and More.” (11/27/25)