Today, we lost a singular figure in American history. There has never been a president or a former president quite like Jimmy Carter. 
Dan Rather, Steady in Substack

Donald Trump isn’t the cause of what ails America. He’s the consequence. The real causes go back four decades.
Robert Reich

After the mailboxes of small Pacific Northwest towns were hit by some immigration hate this month, the pushback to it was marked by both humanity and hopefulness.
Danny Westneat of The Seattle Times

On Monday, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, signed the Freedom to Read Act, which prohibits the state’s schools and public libraries from arbitrarily banning books.
Evette Dionne, MSNBC

This is Paul Krugman’s final column for The New York Times, where he began publishing his opinions in January 2000. This seems like a good occasion to reflect on what has changed over these past 25 years.
Paul Krugman of the New York Times

Usually in the honeymoon period, between an election and when lawmaking begins, legislators are a bit shy about using the “T” word.
Danny Westneat, Seattle Times

One of the first pieces of advice that Dan Buettner, the founder of Blue Zones, always gives as a way to improve your life, health, and happiness is to sign up to volunteer in your community. It’s a long-term investment in your health and in your city if you sign up to do it regularly, and you’ll meet like-minded people along the way.
Naomi Imatome-Yun, Blue Zones

Representative Melaine Stransbury of New Mexico exposes the impact of the Dismantle DEI Act co-sponsored by JD Vance.

Trump is saying the election gave him a “very big mandate.”

Rubbish. It wasn’t a mandate at all. It wasn’t even a “red shift” to Trump and the Republicans. It was a blue abandonment. 
Robert Reich

At his Madison Square Garden rally, Trump’s argument was hate and fear. And then things got worse. 1939 all over again.
Daniel Graham at The Atlantic

CNN host Jake Tapper mocked the two Republican leaders in Congress with clips of former President Trump calling his opponent, Vice President Harris, a “fascist.” 
Flip Timotiija of The Hill

“Can Kamala Harris win this thing? Are we going to be OK?”This sentiment is heard over and over from sweaty Democratic operatives who all too often love to run to the press with their woes.
James Carville in The New York Times.

John Kelly, the Trump White House’s longest-serving chief of staff, said that he believed that Donald Trump met the definition of a fascist.
Michael S. Schmidt of The New York Times

To conclude his “poisoning of the blood” campaign, Donald Trump has planned a spectacular extravaganza in Madison Square Garden one week before the election.
Sidney Blumenthal in The Guardian

At a time when his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, has stepped up her attacks on him as “unstable,” Mr. Trump has struggled to publicly hone his message by veering off script and ramping up personal attacks on Ms. Harris that allies have urged him to rein in.
The New York Times

Since Gen. Mark Milley was quoted as saying Donald Trump is “fascist to the core,” a term avoided by top members of the Democratic Party is suddenly everywhere.
The New York Times

In a harsh rebuke to the Democratic presidential nominee, Fox News Channel asserted on Friday that Kamala Harris had “flagrantly broken” the network’s ground rules for her interview by speaking in complete sentences.
The Borowitz Report

Brian Tyler Cohen walks through Kamala Harris' interview with Brett Baier of Fox News. It did not go well for Baier.
Brian Tyler Cohen