It’s Monday, November 2.
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Today: Why economics loses no matter who wins in the midterms.
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Josh Code meets the woman who spent 14 years on psychiatric drugs and is now joining HHS to fix the system.
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Mark Manson on why happiness is overrated.
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Just when we thought Election Day would arrive without the usual late “October surprise,” Michigan’s Senate race took an unforgettable November turn.
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Yesterday, Rep. Haley Stevens, who narrowly lost the Democratic primary to Abdul El-Sayed in August, endorsed El-Sayed’s Republican opponent, Mike Rogers.
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The last-minute change of heart caught everyone off guard, but it reflects a truth that’s easy to forget in today’s politics: Some fissures run deeper than the line between parties.
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Stevens made her move after El-Sayed refused to condemn an ad from a supporter’s PAC that blamed Israel for the rising cost of Americans’ groceries.
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With control of the Senate potentially hinging on Michigan, Democratic leaders were quick to denounce her.
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But is she a traitor, or a Democrat putting her country over her party?
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James Kirchick argues it’s the latter.
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Two years ago, he notes Democrats welcomed Liz Cheney’s endorsement of Elissa Slotkin for Michigan’s other Senate seat as an act of political courage.
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Now that a Democrat has made the same choice, her party is branding her as a turncoat.
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And what does Stevens’ endorsement mean for El-Sayed’s chances on Tuesday?
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The polls show El-Sayed ahead, but could this change things?
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Mark Halperin says her defection has exposed divisions Democrats had worked to keep hidden in the final weeks of the campaign.
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Before Sunday, insiders in both parties told him El-Sayed could win Michigan without a blue wave.
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Now, Halperin writes, he probably needs one.
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For predictions of their outcomes, we turn to two of our favorite Washington insiders, Jesse Arm, a conservative, and Yemisi Egbewole, a liberal.
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They go state by state through the biggest contests, and find themselves agreeing more often than you might expect.
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Will Rahn, Mark Halperin, and a lineup of Free Press writers will follow the results as they come in.
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A federal judge on Sunday threw out the Justice Department’s bid to delay certifying Alaska’s Senate results should Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan lose in tomorrow’s midterm elections.
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The DOJ had argued that another man with the same name was put on the ballot to confuse voters and help Democrat Mary Peltola, whose campaign denies any role.
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Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut suffered a stroke on Saturday after feeling his arm go numb at his son’s hockey game.
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The 53-year old Democrat, a possible 2028 presidential contender, is being treated at Johns Hopkins and is expected to make a full recovery.
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A private jet flying from Texas to The Bahamas nosedived and crashed in Palm Beach County, Florida, on Sunday, killing all nine people aboard.
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Drivers on a nearby road captured video of the plane plummeting from the sky, and the cause is still under investigation.
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New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani said Saturday that President Trump agreed in a phone call to quickly grant a visa to the mother of Javits Frimpong, a 15-year-old Ghanaian immigrant who was shot on his way to school in the Bronx last week.
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The police have not made any arrests in his killing.
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Russian authorities detained a teenager Sunday after the U.S. warned of a possible terror attack in Moscow.
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Russia’s FSB security service said the minor had posted TikTok photos of himself in tactical gear with what looked like an automatic weapon, and followed a neo-Nazi channel online.
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Polish president Karol Nawrocki personally rushed to the country’s top constitutional court Friday night after its chief, an appointee of the previous conservative government, was suspended by a fellow judge.
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The president, a conservative ally, called it an illegal takeover, while Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who has vowed to undo the previous government’s control over the courts, defended the move as a necessary step.
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Sweden’s Andreas Almgren won the men’s race at the New York City Marathon yesterday in 2:06:01, his first-ever marathon, while Kenya’s Sheila Chepkirui captured her second women’s title in 2:24:36.
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Almgren, the reigning world half-marathon champion, is the first European-born man to win in New York since 1996.
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(Read Casey Neistat on why he runs the marathon every year.)
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