Ex-WaPo Editor: This Is a Straight Bezos-Trump ‘Quid Pro Quo’  —  DIRTY DEAL  —  Robert Kagan tells the Daily Beast that Donald Trump's meeting with Blue Origin executives the day its founder Jeff Bezos killed his paper's Kamala Harris endorsement is proof of a backroom deal.  —  EXCLUSIVE

Republican battleground-state legal blitz falters ahead of election  —  Donald Trump's Republican allies have suffered a string of courtroom setbacks in battleground U.S. presidential election states as Election Day draws closer, losses which could boost voter turnout and speed certification of the eventual winner.

Harris regains slight lead nationally yet Electoral College holds the cards: POLL  —  Harris has regained a slight lead with likely voters nationally, the poll finds.  —  Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign rally at James R. Hallford Stadium, Oct. 24, 2024, in Clarkston, Ga.

Why Is Trump Holding a Rally at Madison Square Garden?  —  New York is not exactly a battleground state.  Here are five reasons Donald J. Trump is holding a rally there in the final days of the presidential campaign.  —  When former President Donald J. Trump decided to take a day off …

Harris and Walz will visit all the battleground states in the campaign's closing stretch  —  Kamala Harris told a church congregation Sunday that the United States is “determined to turn the page on hatred and division.”  The vice president's visit to Philadelphia's Church of Christian Compassion …

October 26, 2024  —  Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S. Army personnel in the European theater of World War II.  Titled Army Talks, the series was designed “to help [the personnel] become better-informed men and women and therefore better soldiers.”

I am my own legal department: the promise and peril of “just go independent”  —  Listen to a voiceover of this post, subscribe to the feed in your podcast app, or download the recording for later.  —  When a major legacy news publication does something controversial, I sometimes hear my name.

Billionaire cowards at Washington Post, L.A. Times show what life under a dictator is really like  —  Do not obey in advance.  Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given.  In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked.

Florida Democrat Blasts Republican Sen. Rick Scott Over State's Home Insurance Crisis  —  Debbie Mucarsel-Powell is hoping voters make the connection between Scott's eight years as governor and the escalating cost of home insurance.  —  LOADING  —  Wetter, more destructive hurricanes …

Trust, Bewilderment and Billionairedom: Understanding the Backlash Against Bezos  —  It's part of the stock in trade of liberal American discourse: threatening or claiming to cancel a subscription to this or that once-revered journalistic institution in response to bad behavior, bad reporting …

Texas poll worker assaulted during early voting  —  An election clerk in San Antonio was allegedly assaulted late Thursday and the suspect, a voter, was arrested, officials said.  —  The suspect was arrested on suspicion of injury to an elderly person, a felony.

A growing number of Americans are concerned with Trump's age, but still not as many who worried about Biden  —  Voters did not have the same concerns about age for Kamala Harris  —  Your support helps us to tell the story  —  This election is still a dead heat, according to most polls.

More than 1,000 faith leaders endorse Harris as vice president leans on her faith to turn out Black voters  —  More than a thousand religious leaders endorsed Kamala Harris on Sunday, bolstering the Democratic presidential nominee's push to emphasize how faith is informing her campaign ahead of next week's election.

Democracy |  As Fascism Looms, the Free Press Must Stand and Report in the Breach  — Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)  —  It was a cool, dark night in Berlin on May 10, 1933, as a mob of white Nazi college students pulled thousands of “subversive” …

Republicans Put Pressure on Democrats in ‘Blue Wall’ Senate Races  —  GOP is closing the gap in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania in fight for majority  —  WASHINGTON—Republicans are starting to crack the solid “blue wall” formed by Democratic-held Senate seats Michigan …