Election Day

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• “Donald Trump and his right-wing friends are worse,” Sanders says in the video. “Trump has said Netanyahu is doing a good job and has said Biden is ‘holding him back.’ He has suggested that the Gaza Strip would make excellent beachfront property for development. And it is no wonder Netanyahu prefers to have Donald Trump in office.” The Nation

• On Friday evening, just as reporters were logging off, the Supreme Court let slip a clue about whether it would take up cases that could determine the outcome of a close election in the coming weeks. Specifically, the hint came in a statement from Justice Samuel Alito. Spoiler: He’s open to it. Mother Jones

• While we can’t make political endorsements as a nonprofit magazine (donations are tax-deductible, by the way), what we can do is offer a detailed analysis of all Harris’s policy positions, as listed on her official website. There are actually quite a lot of them: 54 separate policies by our count, laid out in 19 sections, plus a handful of scary-looking red tabs comparing Harris’s agenda to the Republican “Project 2025.” They’re a mixed bag, with some genuinely good ideas, some awful ones, and a lot that falls somewhere in between. Here’s our full breakdown. Current Affairs