The Last Communist City  —  A visit to the dystopian Havana that tourists never see  —  Neill Blomkamp's 2013 science-fiction film Elysium, starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster, takes place in Los Angeles, circa 2154.  The wealthy have moved into an orbiting luxury satellite …

Letters threatening genocide against Muslims and praising Trump sent to multiple California mosques  —  Hussam Ayloush, seen here in May, is the Los Angeles director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the country's largest Muslim civil liberties organization.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Obama's agencies push flurry of ‘midnight’ actions  —  Federal agencies are rushing out a final volley of executive actions in the last two months of Barack Obama's presidency, despite warnings from Republicans in Congress and the reality that Donald Trump will have the power to erase much of their handiwork after Jan. 20.

Already Happening: Media Normalization of Trumpism  —  In the children's short story “The Emperor's New Clothes,” by Hans Christian Andersen, what kept the fiction of the naked emperor's sartorial splendor alive was nothing in particular about the emperor.  True, he was vain and plainly foolish …

Washington Post Disgracefully Promotes a McCarthyite Blacklist From a New, Hidden, and Very Shady Group  —  The Washington Post on Thursday night promoted the claims of a new, shadowy organization that smears dozens of U.S. news sites that are critical of U.S. foreign policy as being “routine peddlers of Russian propaganda.”

Reddit's CEO regrets trolling Trump supporters by secretly editing their posts  —  Steve Huffman, the chief executive of Reddit, knows he has some explaining to do.  —  Huffman, also a Reddit co-founder, landed in hot water Wednesday after admitting that he used his administrative powers …

A look at Steve Bannon and his years at Harvard Business School  —  From the very first day, Steve Bannon made an impression.  —  In a Harvard Business School classroom of about 90 people in 1983, he took a seat in the “skydeck” — a spot at the top giving him a view of the entire class.

Trump spent Thanksgiving asking: Mitt or Rudy?  —  More On:  —  The talk at Donald Trump's Thanksgiving dinner at his Florida club was all about if he should pick Mitt Romney or Rudy Giuliani for secretary of state.  —  The president-elect held court on Thursday at his Palm Beach, Fla. …

Hopes for a female president dashed, women take running for office into their own hands  —  On Wednesday, she woke up inconsolable.  On Thursday, angry.  But on the Friday after the presidential election, as she prepared posters to join thousands in protesting Donald Trump's victory …

The Liberal Response to Trump Is Devolving Into Outrage Porn  —  Instead of being aghast at the non-stop spectacle of Trump's transition, we should try a more level-headed approach.  —  The outrage over Donald Trump's election has continued unabated on social media for more than two weeks now.