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)