You’re not alone: Michelle Goldberg spoke to several therapists who report that their patients are feeling anxious, stressed, and upset by the presidential election. Descendents of Holocaust survivors; people of color; women who have had relationships with manipulative abusers—all find themselves alienated, afraid, and questioning their own safety in the age of Trump.
Free debate advice: Dahlia Lithwick has some for Hillary Clinton. Be the grownup in the room on Monday—that’s what voters need to see. Stay away from name-calling, and take the high road, like Michelle Obama promised you would. The strategy can’t lose.
#SlatePitch of the Day: Ballot selfies may seem like social-media overkill to suspicious elders, but they should be legal, Mark Joseph Stern writes. In fact, let’s all participate: Showing off the voting process is good for democracy.
That word: Isaac Chotiner asked the New York Times’ executive editor Dean Baquet about the paper’s decision to call Donald Trump a liar.
For fun: Can masturbating frosh really clog a dorm’s shower drain?
It’s science,
Rebecca