Health experts offer advice on how to plan for a safe Thanksgiving during the Covid period. / STAT
In Switzerland, yodelers created a superspreader event in late September. / The Daily Beast
Five reasons why Covid-19 has been less deadly in Africa than elsewhere. / BBC News
James Carville: Americans are coming together to save our Republic, right now. That means something. / The Bulwark
We have a long, hot century ahead of us, and the heat presents a challenge “to every single advance in health and medicine.” / The Atlantic
Death rates have soared in US jails. At least two-thirds of the dead were never convicted of the charges on which they were being held. / Reuters
Karen Attiah: Why Nigeria’s protests against police brutality this week matter to Americans. / The Washington Post
Interview with a man waving an American flag on a bridge in Colorado. / The New Yorker
Related: Story of a town in Washington terrorizing “hippie campers,” for fear of a rumored Antifa invasion. / WIRED
The White House was warned last year that Rudy Giuliani was the target of a Russian intelligence operation to feed misinformation to Trump. / The Washington Post
“Rudy Giuliani Is My Father. Please, Everyone, Vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.” / Vanity Fair
With the president’s re-election in doubt, cabinet departments are rushing to finish dozens of new rules. / The New York Times
The far right is losing power in Austria, in part because some of its ideas have been embraced by the mainstream. / The Ballot
In little over a year, hundreds of regions across Poland have transformed themselves into so-called “LGBT-free zones.” / CNN
Peloton has positioned itself as the cure to a host of upper-middle class ills. It’s also walking a very thin tightrope, politically. / Caitlin Dewey
Only three percent of Netflix’s most-watched content over the last six weeks was actually produced by Netflix, / Quartz
See also: The making (and remaking) of Timothée Chalamet. / The Morning News
British TV host Martin Roberts seems to play an invisible piano anytime he congratulates people. / The Morning News
New York City libraries were constructed with apartments for the custodians. There are 13 of them left. / Atlas Obscura