The Angle

The Angle: Up Late Stressed Edition

Slate’s daily newsletter on Hillary the grown-up, ballot selfies, and Trump anxiety.

“War,” Jackson Pollock, 1947.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

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