More than 2,400 people have tested positive and more than 990 have died in the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in Uganda. Here’s how the crisis is impacting the physicians on the front lines.

One uncertainty haunting Gadi Eisenkot’s Prime Minister campaign is Donald Trump, David Remnick writes. Will the American President intervene at the last moment to help Benjamin Netanyahu?

New analysis estimates that nearly 60 per cent of internet traffic is nonhuman. “The bot revolution is coming—or is perhaps already here—whether we like it or not,” T. M. Brown writes.

On Halloween in 2016, Hannah Eimers and a friend drove four hours from her home in Tennessee to Athens, Georgia, for a party. In the early hours of November 1st, she was on her way back when her Volvo drifted off Interstate 75—even though she was sober—and collided with a steel guardrail. Her car hit a safety feature on the rail that was designed to slow the vehicle and force the rail to curl up. Instead, it tore through the Volvo and cut Hannah’s body in half. Not long after Hannah’s death, her father, Steve, began researching guardrail accidents. He’s since driven some 40,000 miles through 25 states to inspect guardrails. Based on his research, he believes there are about 1,000 annual guardrail-related deaths in the U.S.—virtually all of them preventable—and tens of thousands of miles of dangerous guardrails presently on the country’s roads. Now he meets with politicians, advocates for guardrail safety in Washington, and posts inspection videos from the sides of highways on his YouTube channel, TheGuardrailGuy. Charles Bethea reports on the man who has made it his mission to fix the nation’s guardrail problem:

Television has historically presented affluence as the norm. Recent shows like “Succession,” and “The White Lotus,” have taken this tendency even further, inviting viewers to hate the über-rich while coveting their five-star amenities. A new set of shows, however, have taken a different approach. Three new offerings center on society’s sinking middle, portraying financial woes and their resultant emotional tensions. They're also the best series of the year thus far, Inkoo Kang writes. Read about how “DTF St. Louis,” “Beef,” and “The Comeback” feel tailor-made to meet our moment of inflation anxiety, affordability crises, and fiscal doomerism:

Bari Weiss is shaking things up at CBS. From New Yorker Humor, here’s what she might change about the Hoover Dam, Dawn dishwashing soap, and other things that we working perfectly well:

On their new albums, Charli XCX and the Strokes flirt with the idea of “rock music.” But it seems more like they’re inhabiting the machine than like they’re raging against it.