Why Trump's Arlington Debacle Is So Serious  —  This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter.  Sign up for it here.  —  The section of Arlington National Cemetery that Donald Trump visited on Monday is both the liveliest and the most achingly sad part of the grand military graveyard …

Trump in damage-control mode over abortion backlash from the right  —  The GOP nominee has landed in hot water on abortion agin after criticizing Florida's six-week ban and declining to take a stance on a state ballot measure.  —  WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump is in damage control …

What's wrong with the fact-checkers?  —  The DNC put the bankruptcy of the genre on full, painful display.  —  🚨 This special, five-edition week of PN is made possible by paid subscribers 🚨 If you aren't one already, please sign up to support our independent journalism.

So long, and thanks for all the fish  —  Before we go any further, I should note that this is my last newsletter for CJR, as I am moving on from my job as the magazine's chief digital writer.  (In case the headline doesn't make any sense, it comes from a Douglas Adams book …

Playbook: What we learned from the Harris interview  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  TALK OF THIS TOWN — “Trump's Latest Move to Avoid Abortion Is His Strangest One Yet,” by Michael Schaffer: “Though Republican lawmakers spent years targeting abortion …

Brazilian judge suspends X platform after it refuses to name a legal representative  —  SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Friday ordered the suspension of Elon Musk's social media giant X in Brazil after the tech billionaire refused to name a legal representative in the country …

JD Vance Won't Apologize To Miss Teen USA Contestant He Insulted To Mock Kamala Harris  —  The Ohio Senator used a 2007 video of Caitlin Upton struggling to answer a question to mock the vice president, not knowing Upton considered suicide after it first went viral.  —  LOADING

At 2 Elite Colleges, Shifts in Racial Enrollment After Affirmative Action Ban  —  Amherst College and Tufts University saw shifts in the racial makeup of students after a Supreme Court decision ending affirmative action.  At other schools, the picture is murkier.

Georgia election workers launch bid to seize Giuliani's assets as they try to collect $148 million defamation verdict  —  Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss want to seize real estate, cash and jewelry.  —  NEW YORK — The two former Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation verdict …

Elon Musk says voting by mail is ‘insane’ — but he has done it himself, records show  —  The tech billionaire voted by mail twice in California, years before he began attacking the option for others.  —  Elon Musk has attacked voting by mail as an “insane” idea that encourages election fraud …

Harris-Walz Interview Ratings Nearly Double Trump's Last Big CNN Sit-Down  —  HUGE  —  The CNN interview also outpaced the ratings for Donald Trump and JD Vance's first joint interview on Fox News.  —  The first joint interview with Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz …

Thumbs Up: The Story of No-Context Trump  —  On the Secret show today, Sarah and I talked about the Harris-Walz interview, more Conservatism Inc. stuff.  And also about this Arlington Cemetery business.  It's a banger.  —  The show is here.  —  1. Thumbs Up  —  We go to cemeteries for all sorts of reasons.

Kamala's First ‘Interview’ Was the Dumpster Fire You Expected It Would Be  —  Did you catch Kamala Harris's first “interview” as the Democratic Party nominee for president?  It was pretty much everything you'd expect from an interview conducted by CNN.  Lots of softball questions, lots of word salad responses.