Leaving the EU might well be demanded by the victor as a way of ensuring that Britain was permanently weakened. By Patrick Cockburn.

There’s a case to be made that Donald Trump is simultaneously the biggest liar in U.S. political history and its greatest truth-teller. By Jon Schwarz.

The scheme is hitting the poorest Americans—and making less money than IRS in-house collectors. By Max de Haldevang, Justin Rohrlich.

As poverty and violence force Guatemalans to leave their country, one anthropologist reflects on her work with Indigenous peoples in the highlands—and shows how the U.S. is implicated in its own “migrant crisis.” By Emily Yates-Doerr.

The image of the standing Sand Palace amid the ruin caused by Hurricane Michael tells us one thing: only the rich will survive climate change. By Kate Wagner.

Their October trial date delayed, a group of 21 youth fight to show that the government knew climate change was coming — yet took actions that made it worse. By Chris Gray.

In recent years, Iran has projected its power across the Middle East, from Lebanon and Syria to Iraq and Yemen. One of the keys to its success has been a unique strategy of blending militant and state power, built in part on the model of Hezbollah in Lebanon. The acknowledged principal architect of this policy is Major General Qassem Soleimani, the long-serving head of Iran’s Quds (“Jerusalem”) Force. Without question, Soleimani is the most powerful general in the Middle East today; he is also one of Iran’s most popular living people, and has been repeatedly touted as a possible presidential candidate. By Ali Soufan.

The U.S. military has a detailed plan to save the living, or at least outlast the dead. By Stephen L. Carter.

Bringing Amazon HQ2 to Chicago was the dream of only Mayor Rahm and his faithful sidekick Governor Rauner—both of whom will be leaving office shortly, thank you very much. By Ben Joravsky.

Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Sunday proposed getting rid of Columbus Day as a holiday and replacing it with a day off for Election Day. It started when Ocasio-Cortez tweeted Saturday night, “how is Columbus Day a holiday but Election Day not?”

When people die from lack of access to medicine, health care profiteers should expect resistance. By Mike Ludwig.

Want to become a police officer, firefighter, or paramedic? A Wired investigation finds government jobs are one of the last holdouts in using—and misusing—otherwise debunked polygraph technology. By Mark Harris.

A key product of ubiquitous surveillance is people who are comfortable with it. By L. M. Sacasas.

Just before he left, the departing attorney-general adopted a policy to limit the Justice Department’s ability to oversee abusive police departments. That same policy could also hamper the department’s role in environmental, voting-rights, and other cases. By Ian MacDougall.

As of Nov. 8, more than 82,000 veterans are still waiting for their housing payments with only weeks remaining in the school semester. By Phil McCausland.

The Real News

For some students, A People’s History will be the only history book they read. What does it teach them? By Sam Wineburg.

Recently declassified documents show that the former CIA director and former director of national intelligence approved illegal spying on Congress and then classified their crime. They need to face punishment, writes John Kiriakou.

Can states’ rights save us from a second civil war? By Jonathan Taplin.

A decade after the worst fighting overseas, five combat veterans put the Forever War and American civilian life into perspective. By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos.