What I read this week...

What I read this week…

Why the U.S. middle class is feeling squeezed (Noahpinion)
Bob Iger vs. Bob Chapek: Inside the Disney coup (WSJ)
Revolutionary therapy clears girl's incurable cancer (BBC)
How Amazon uses AI to automate work in its corporate headquarters (Big Technology)
Exclusive: TikTok spied on Forbes journalists (Forbes)
Meet the Florida English teacher trying to ban 150 books from school libraries (Popular Information)
Why YouTube is paying the NFL $2B annually for Sunday Ticket (Huddle Up)
Inside Big Plastic’s faltering $1.5B global cleanup effort (Bloomberg)
Silicon Valley is coming for your gut biome (NBC News)
11 times this year when politics was funny (The Atlantic)

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