Midterm Elections / Voting
- How To Watch The Midterms: An Hour-By-Hour Guide by Nathaniel Rakich (FiveThirtyEight)
- The World Is More Interested Than Usual In The U.S. Midterm Elections. Here’s Why by Frank Langfitt (NPR)
- How To Make Sense Of Exit Polls On Election Night by Asma Khalid (NPR)
- Voting machine errors already roil Texas and Georgia races by Christian Vasquez, Matthew Choi (Politico)
- “Certain Readers May Have a Nervous Reaction”: The New York Times Election Needle Is Back, with a Few New Safety Features by Joe Pompeo (Vanity Fair)
- Why Don’t Young People Vote? This System Doesn’t Want Them To. by Jamelle Bouie (Slate)
- Election Update: Democrats Are Likely To Make Big Gains In Governors Races by Perry Bacon Jr. (FiveThirtyEight)
- Trump Threatens “Maximum Criminal Penalties” in Likely Attempt to Suppress Votes by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
- These 11 Mini-Trumps Are Up for Reelection by Dan Spinelli, Dave Gilson (Mother Jones)
- DOJ’s Civil Rights Division has not filed a single Voting Rights Act case since Trump took office by Ian Millhiser (ThinkProgress)
- Don’t Count Them Out Just Because They Can’t Cast A Ballot by Isabeth Mendoza (NPR)
- Sanders, Conway appear at Trump rally by Brett Samuels and Jordan Fabian (The Hill)
- Early Voting Brought a Surge of Voters. What Will Election Day Bring? by Blake Paterson and Maya Miller (ProPublica)
- DOJ Civil Rights Division to Monitor Polls in 35 Counties on Election Day by Griffin Donnelly (Roll Call)
- Analysis: 9 Senate races that are shaping up to be nail-biters and will determine which party controls the Senate by Eliza Relman (Business Insider)
- The 10 Most Vulnerable Senators on Election Day by Bridget Bowman (Roll Call)
- Taking Back The House Could Be ‘Life And Death’ For Democrats by Mara Liasson, Deirdre Walsh, Barbara Sprunt (NPR)
- Trump Closes Out a Campaign Built on Fear, Anger and Division by Peter Baker, Michael D. Shear, and Katie Rogers (NY Times)
- Opinion: Since Parkland, we’ve been demanding action. Now it’s time to join us. by David Hogg and Emma Gonzáles (Washington Post)
- Opinion: Will there be a youth wave? Early voting points to yes by Jacqueline Alemany (Washington Post)
- Analysis: Two Vastly Different Election Outcomes That Hinge on a Few Dozen Close Contests by Nate Cohn (NY Times)
- Analysis: House and Senate Latest, Big Poll for Democrats, Georgia Runoff: 1 Day to Go by Jonathan Martin and Matt Flegenheimer (NY Times)
- The Midterm Election Is a Referendum on the GOP’s White Nationalism by Mari Uyehara (GQ)
- Georgia Officials Quietly Patched Security Holes They Said Didn’t Exist by Jack Gillum, Jessica Huseman, Mike Tigas, Jeff Kao, Stephen Fowler (ProPublica)
- How the Election Assistance Commission Came Not to Care So Much About Election Security by Jessica Huseman (ProPublica)
- What If The Polls Are Wrong Again? 4 Scenarios For What Might Happen In The Elections by Domenico Montanaro (NPR)
- For Democrats, The Midterms Are About Health Care. For Republicans, It’s Immigration. by Ariel Edwars-Levy (Huffington Post)
- Opinion: The Dark Certainty of the 2018 Midterms by Susan Glasser (NewYorker)
- Without evidence, Trump and Sessions warn of voter fraud in Tuesday’s elections by Amy Gardner (Washington Post)
Iran
- Iran sanctions: Rouhani defiant as US re-imposes measures (BBC)
- Iran sanctions: US vows ‘relentless’ pressure as sanctions resume (BBC)
- U.S. reimposes tough curbs on Iran, Tehran hits at ‘bullying’ by Lesley Wroughton, Parisa Hafezi (Reuters)
- U.S. Renews Sanctions On Iran But Exempts 8 Oil Importers, Including China And Japan by Scott Neuman, Bill Chappell (NPR)
Immigration / Border / Family Separation
- A Furious John Oliver Refuses to Let Family Separation Be Forgotten Ahead of the Election by Marissa Martineeli (Slate)
- That Racist Trump Ad CNN Refused To Air? NBC Just Ran It In Prime Time. by Nick Visser (Huffington Post)
- NBC plays Trump’s anti-immigrant ad rejected as “racist” by CNN during “Sunday Night Football” by Rachel Leah (Salon)
- Trump’s Lying About the Caravan. That Doesn’t Mean It’s Not a Real Crisis by Isabel Torrealba (Slate)
- Troop Deployment to the Border Will Cost $220 Million, and the Pentagon Seems to Think It’s a Waste by Matthew Zeitlin (Slate)
- Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Consider DACA Program by Todd Ruger (Roll Call)
Giuliani / Trump Fraud
- ‘One of the Biggest Fraud Cases Ever’: Trump Biographer David Cay Johnston Uncovers Rudy Giuliani’s Alleged Role In Massive $10 Billion Theft by David Cay Johnson (AlterNet)
- Human rights group calls for investigation of Giuliani, Trump money-laundering scheme by David Cay Johnston (Salon)
Other News
- Khashoggi sons ask Saudi Arabia to return father’s body (Al Jazeera)
- Saudi ‘cover-up team’ sent to dispose of Khashoggi body: report (Al Jazeera)
- Obama: GOP has ‘racked up enough indictments to field a football team’ by Megan Keller (The Hill)
- More than 1,600 scientists condemn Trump administration’s ‘gender’ memo by Zack Ford (ThinkProgress)
- Trump says he doesn’t agree with government climate report that he never read by Mark Hand (ThinkProgress)
- U.S. Supreme Court ends fight over Obama-era net neutrality rules by Lawrence Hurley (Reuters)
- Trump says China wants to make a deal on trade, he wants right deal (Reuters)
- Koch brothers are watching you: And new documents reveal just how much they know by Calvin Sloan (Salon)
- Right-Wing Hate Groups Are Recruiting Video Gamers by Anya Kamenetz (NPR)
- Mail bomb suspect’s mother wants country, Trump to tone down rhetoric by Emily Birnbaum (The Hill)
- Trump trails all potential women Democratic challengers in 2020 poll by Emily Stewart (Vox)
- Their soybeans piling up, farmers hope trade war ends before beans rot by Binyamin Applebaum (The NY Times)
- Trump: ‘I Don’t Care’ if House Democrats Release My Tax Returns by John T. Bennett (Roll Call)
- Ivanka Trump wins 16 Chinese trademarks despite shutting down her business by Benjamin Goggin (Business Insider)
- Supreme Court Won’t Review Decision That OK’d Obama-Era Net Neutrality Rules by Bill Chappell (NPR)
Analysis
- How Congress Stopped Working by Derek Willis, Paul Kane (ProPublica, Washington Post)
- How Russians have helped fuel the rise of Germany’s far right by Petra Rethmann (Salon)