Under Trump-appointed Chairman Ajit Pai, the FCC is planning to call a December vote regarding the future of net neutrality, which requires that broadband providers treat all data equally.

Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor of media studies and director of the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia, gives a net neutrality refresher and breaks down what's at stake in the FCC's proposal to end it.

On Giving Tuesday, listeners call in with the charitable causes (beyond political causes or cultural institutions) getting their support this holiday season and Asha Curran, chief innovation officer and director of the Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact at 92Y, drops in to talk about the idea behind the day.

Hi @BrianLehrer—for #GivingTuesday, your listeners should know about NY Center for Law & Justice, which provides legal services to indigent deaf people in NYC, founders Bruce & Liz Gitlin. @NYLawJustice https://t.co/I7cm2WwrxT

.@BrianLehrer! Im supporting the Center of Law & Social Justice at Medgar Evers College. @CLSJ_MEC is the only local NYC (Brooklyn based!) law center using the law to protect African descendant & disenfranchised communities! #GivingTuesday! #BrooklynGives https://t.co/iV1nny5Plt pic.twitter.com/RDpdjgTn5Y

@BrianLehrer I gave to the Michael J. Fox foundation today to fund Parkinson’s disease research and today they have a matching fund as well. #loveyourshow

Interested in donating to a certain organization for #GivingTuesday but not sure if it checks out? Head to https://t.co/6FAWXTq7iz to verify.

yo @BrianLehrer how about @HabitatNYC for #GivingTuesday. Lower-income NYers should have the choice to own their own home, which means a chance to remain in their communities, and build a lifetime of equity and stability for their families! Affordable home-ownership ftw

President Roosevelt met with two future Saudi monarchs in 1943. Since then, U.S. presidents have had direct relationships with those Saudi kings and their successors.

Bruce Riedel, senior fellow and director of the Brookings Intelligence Project and author of Kings and Presidents: Saudi Arabia and the United States since FDR  discusses the special, and often fraught, partnership between an absolute monarchy with a unique Islamic identity and the world's most powerful democracy, the new Saudi leadership and whether its modernization effort brings excessive volatility to the region.

The reason the relationship between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia has endured is because "despite the fact that we don’t have shared values, we often have shared interests," says Bruce Riedel, author of "Kings and Presidents."

The Senate Ethics Committee has not confirmed that they’re investigating, but Senator Franken said he is open to making any results of an Ethics Committee public, says @seungminkim.

"Congress is about staffers being seen and not heard. As Democrats are so focused on taking back the House, if you take on John Conyers and a Republican takes his seat, you’re seen now as going against the team," says @Yamiche.

"It was so wrong on so many levels what these people were trying to do. We, as journalists, take these allegations very seriously but we vet them very carefully, our credibility is what we live on," @seungminkim on Project Veritas' failed anti-WaPo plot.

Brooklyn City Councilman Jumaane Williams (District 45) talks about the Trump administration's decision to end Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, for Haitians, and how it will affect the many Haitians in his district, plus discusses his run for speaker of the New York City Council.

On Friday, at least 305 Egyptians were killed by terrorists who detonated a bomb in a crowded Sufi mosque, then sprayed worshipers with bullets as they fled. It was deadliest terror attack in the country's modern history. Daisy Khan, founder and executive director of the Women’s Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality (WISE), talks about the Sufi branch of Islam and why its adherents are targeted by ISIS.

Jen Gann's son was born with the terminal illness cystic fibrosis, after her midwives didn't inform her she was a carrier for the genetic mutation that causes the disease.

Jen Gann is The Cut's parenting editor, and the author of this week's New York Magazine cover story "Every Parent Wants to Protect Their Child. I Never Got the Chance. To fight for my son, I have to argue that he should never have been born." She talks about suing her medical care providers for the failure to diagnose her son's medical condition in utero. 

David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and the author of (now in paperback), The Making of Donald Trump, talks about what he's learned about the president's businesses, taxes and how his tax plan will affect him and the rest of us.

Congress returns to work after Thanksgiving break to a tense atmosphere, as pressure mounts to end Capitol Hill’s culture of sexual harassment. Gabe Debenedetti, political reporter for POLITICO, talks about how "Roy Moore's sexual misconduct scandal is metastasizing beyond Alabama into the 2018 battle for Congress." 

Bonus: Is Bernie making moves to run in 2020? 

In case you missed them, hear three of our favorite segments from the week:

Decline of the NYC Subway System (First) | Whatever Happened to Trump's Accusers? (Starts 22:22) | The World's Biggest Family Reunion (Starts 47:47)

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