Midterm Elections / Voting
- Why Every Vote Matters — The Elections Decided By A Single Vote (Or A Little More) by Domenico Montanaro (NPR)
- How Thousands of Already Cast Florida Ballots Could Be Tossed Aside Without Voters Knowing by Pema Levy (Mother Jones)
- Early youth vote explodes in Texas: Hope for Beto O’Rourke in key Senate race? by Igor Derysh (Salon)
- If 2016 was the most important election in history, this is our chance to begin undoing it by Phil Torres (Salon)
- It’s Going to Take More Than One Election to Make America as Great as It Was Before Trump by Lucian K. Truscott IV (AlterNet)
- Democrats Say Republicans Are Stealing the Midterms. Are They Right? by Michael Grunwald (Politico)
- High Voter Turnout Expected for Midterm Elections Based on 30 Million Early Ballots by Bill Barrow, Gladys Negrete (TIME)
- A Democratic Wave in Congress Could Change Immigration Policy by Richard Gonzales (NPR)
- Midterms 2018: Obama mocks Trump’s migrant caravan response, branding deployment of troops a ‘political stunt’ by Tom Embury-Dennis (Independent)
- Trump Jr. griped that CNN didn’t run his dad’s commercial. ‘This ad is racist,’ the network replied. by Amy B. Wang (Washington Post)
- Opinion: Women are expected to swing this election — because, of course, we expect them to do everything by Monica Hesse (Washington Post)
- A Nation in Turmoil Prepares to Deliver a Verdict on Trump by Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin (NY Times)
Iran
- Russia says US sanctions ‘illegal’, will help Iran trade oil by Patty Culhane (Al Jazeera)
- Iran’s Khamenei says the world opposes Trump’s decisions: TV by Parisa Hafezi (Reuters)
- Iran seeks EU guarantees against Trump’s sanctions by Emmet Livingstone (Politico)
Other News
- Erdogan points finger at Saudi ‘puppet masters’ in Khashoggi case (Al Jazeera)
- Trump casts doubt on Kavanaugh accusers following new DOJ referral by Quint Forgey (Politico)
- In victory for Trump administration, judge strikes down California federal lands law by E.A. Crunden (ThinkProgress)
- U.S. militia groups head to border, stirred by Trump’s call to arms by Mary Lee Grant and Nick Miroff (Washington Post)
- CNN Fires Back at Donald Trump Jr.: We Didn’t Run Your Dad’s Ad Because it’s Racist by Daniel Politi (Slate)
- Donald Trump Jr. Is Basically Tweeting About White Genocide Now by Tim Murphy (Mother Jones)
- Supreme Court refuses to block young people’s climate change lawsuit against US government by Robert Barnes (Independent)
- Young Activists Can Sue Government Over Climate Change, Supreme Court Says by Jacob Pinter (NPR)
- Noam Chomsky Calls Trump and Republican Allies “Criminally Insane” by John Horgan (Scientific American)
Analysis
- Trump’s border deployments could cost $200 million by year-end by Paul Sonne (Washington Post)