Last straws: What’s made Republicans renounce Donald Trump over the past two years? We made a video timeline.
Admit it: Could Trump’s taped boasts about a habit of sexual assault be evidence admissible in court, if a specific case were to go to trial? Dahlia Lithwick asked a few lawyers, who agreed: probably not.
Gamers against Trump: Dawnthea Price deciphers an extremely microtargeted anti-Trump billboard for us. (I feel like I learned something today. Don’t main Hanzo! Got it.)
A different Hamilton: Pi Day is overhyped, Katherine Merow writes. Let’s join the Irish and celebrate Oct. 16: Hamilton Day, when mathematician William Rowan Hamilton had a big breakthrough.
Not fair: Chris Suellentrop writes in praise of a new app, Really Bad Chess, that brings an element of randomness to the familiar game. That’s good, Suellentrop argues; a lot of the games we love the most incorporate an element of luck.
For fun: Danny Elfman wrote a tense horror-film score for the Trump debate lurker footage.
Look out behind you!
Rebecca
