Heebie-jeebies: Jim Newell knows you’re worried, and he’s not going to soothe your nerves. “Fear should be your guiding emotion this week,” he writes. Let campaign staffers avoid bed-wetting; everyone else should help turn out the vote.
What’s going on in North Carolina?: Black voter turnout is behind in the state, Jamelle Bouie finds. Are pushes by the state’s GOP to limit early voting having an effect?
On the record: What power does the law have to limit the actions of Trump’s poll watchers? Dahlia Lithwick finds the Clinton campaign and the Democrat National Committee are filing lawsuits now, with the hope of flushing Trump’s plans out into the open.
Wrong hands: We can’t trust Donald Trump with the National Security Agency, former State Department official John Napier Tye argues. Right now, the executive branch is our safeguard against the agency’s power; with a loose cannon in charge, anything could happen.
Parsing the unparseable: Katy Waldman digs into Trump’s style of speaking and explains why it appeals so much to some listeners, while sounding, to others, like “Saturnine gibberish or racist gobbledygook.”
For fun: Louis C.K.’s perfect president.
A mother’s got it,
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