
Dara Lind
Senior Correspondent
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A bad night for Donald Trump; Elon Musk’s plan for a Mars shuttle; don’t look now, but we’re a few days away from a government shutdown.


And a stunning number of people don’t seem to care.

And celebrated with a shimmy.

The first presidential debate; new stats on crime in 2015; an update in the UN secretary general race.


Blame tradition — and Abraham Lincoln.

Son-of-a-JFK-assassin-accomplice Ted Cruz endorses pathological liar Donald Trump; the DOJ’s war on science; it looks like Russia really is trying to meddle in the US election.

Tensions in Kashmir; this year’s MacArthur Genius Grant winners; how Clinton and Trump would govern.

Protests in Charlotte after an (un?)(armed?) black man is killed by police; the US and Russia make a UN Security Council meeting on Syria super awkward; Brangelina, and America.

This column from the New York Times’s public editor is everything wrong with “objective journalism.”

Turns out you can’t use your foundation to pay off lawsuits against your companies.