Real undecideds: Jim Newell eavesdropped on a focus group with 12 deeply disillusioned undecided voters, held in North Carolina on Tuesday, and found it to be one of the more depressing rooms he’s ever been in. “I so much wanted Trump. I so much wanted a nonpolitician. But I don’t trust him, and I’ve become afraid of him,” one of the voters said. “Clinton is the lesser of two evils.”
Putting it off: Helaine Olen speaks with another group of undecided Americans: People who have been delaying major financial decisions until they can know for sure who will be president.
Judgment can be good: Let’s not slam other people’s parenting styles, but let’s not completely refrain from critique, Elissa Strauss writes. How else will we figure out what we think?
Poisoned manhood: With the movies Moonlight and Goat, two of the best films of the fall, we’re working out some issues around toxic masculinity, Michael-Oliver Harding writes.
Come on, now: Watching the “stink bomb” new CBS medical drama Pure Genius, Willa Paskin decides she’s done with giving networks a pass.
For fun: RIP, Vine. We will miss you.
RIP, RIP, RIP,
Rebecca
