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The stock market’s surprising bet on who will win the presidency

The stock market’s surprising bet on who will win the presidency

Politico reports: Wall Street executives, political gamblers and cryptocurrency traders are piling up their bets that former President Donald Trump is returning to the White House. But the stock market may be telling a different story. U.S. stocks have been on a tear, with the bellwether S&P 500 index climbing more than 10 percent since August. While the stock market is not necessarily representative of the broader economy, the S&P 500’s performance in the run-up to Election Day has historically…

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Trump would be worse for Palestinians

Trump would be worse for Palestinians

Nicholas Kristof writes: If Donald Trump is elected president on Tuesday, one factor may be anger at Biden administration policies in the Middle East. Some Arab Americans, including those in swing states like Michigan, are enraged at President Biden’s support for Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon. Their taxes are paying for weapons that may be killing their relatives. A poll found Arab American support for Kamala Harris is 18 percentage points below support for Biden in 2020. Many young…

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Bill Clinton’s Gaza comments draw outrage on social media

Bill Clinton’s Gaza comments draw outrage on social media

Middle East Eye reports: Former US President Bill Clinton has sparked backlash online after saying the Palestinian group Hamas “forces” Israel to kill Palestinian civilians. Clinton addressed an audience in Michigan on Wednesday to rally support for Democratic Party candidate Vice President Kamala Harris ahead of the 5 November US presidential elections, with a speech that discussed Israel’s ongoing war on the Gaza Strip. Michigan is a key battleground state where former President Donald Trump and Harris are neck and…

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It might be possible to detect gravitons after all

It might be possible to detect gravitons after all

Charlie Wood writes: Detecting a graviton — the hypothetical particle thought to carry the force of gravity — is the ultimate physics experiment. Conventional wisdom, however, says it can’t be done. According to one infamous estimate, an Earth-size apparatus orbiting the sun might pick up one graviton every billion years. To snag one in a decade, another calculation has suggested, you’d have to park a Jupiter-size machine next to a neutron star. In short: not going to happen. A new…

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Trump doubles down after Elon Musk’s shocking ‘tank the economy’ confession

Trump doubles down after Elon Musk’s shocking ‘tank the economy’ confession

The New Republic reports: Just hours after Elon Musk admitted Donald Trump’s policies will tank the entire economy, the former president confirmed his plans to let Musk be a part of the destruction, claiming that “nobody is going to feel it.” In an interview with Sean Hannity on Tuesday night, Trump lauded Musk as a “very exceptional guy” and a “great cost-cutter” when asked about a potential role for the billionaire CEO in his Cabinet. But even more unbelievably, the…

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We led some of America’s largest companies. Here’s why we are voting for Harris, not Trump

We led some of America’s largest companies. Here’s why we are voting for Harris, not Trump

The following former CEOs — Doug Parker (American Airlines), Ken Frazier (Merck), Anne Mulcahy (Xerox), Ursula Burns (Xerox), Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Jeff Bewkes (Time Warner), Bob Diamond (Barclays), Matt Levatich (Harley-Davidson), Tom Glocer (Thomson Reuters), Kay Koplovitz (USA Network), Robert Wolf (UBS Americas), Blake Irving (GO Daddy), Michael Lynton (Sony Pictures), Ken Chenault (American Express Co), Tony Coles (Onyx Pharmaceuticals and Yumanity Pharmaceuticals), Roger Altman (Evercore), Ellen Kullman (DuPont), John Pepper (Procter & Gamble), and Bill George (Medtronic) — write:…

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How America’s craven plutocrats busted the myth of the business hero

How America’s craven plutocrats busted the myth of the business hero

Ross Rosenfeld writes: Of the top 10 richest men in America, not one of them has publicly endorsed Kamala Harris or been willing to condemn Donald Trump. These supposed business heroes are mostly business cowards, the first to stoop to obey. Occasionally, we hear about the whispered condemnations that those in the billionaire class supposedly voice behind closed doors. Yet Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a Yale professor who heads the Executive Leadership Institute, told Forbes, “They don’t antagonize Trump because … they…

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A Texas woman died after the hospital said it would be a ‘crime’ to intervene in her miscarriage

A Texas woman died after the hospital said it would be a ‘crime’ to intervene in her miscarriage

By Cassandra Jaramillo and Kavitha Surana This story was originally published by ProPublica Josseli Barnica grieved the news as she lay in a Houston hospital bed on Sept. 3, 2021: The sibling she’d dreamt of giving her daughter would not survive this pregnancy. The fetus was on the verge of coming out, its head pressed against her dilated cervix; she was 17 weeks pregnant and a miscarriage was “in progress,” doctors noted in hospital records. At that point, they should…

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Workers say they were tricked and threatened as part of Elon Musk’s get-out-the-vote effort

Workers say they were tricked and threatened as part of Elon Musk’s get-out-the-vote effort

Wired reports: “I was in shock and disbelief,” says a paid door knocker flown to Michigan to help turn out the vote for former president Donald Trump on behalf of Elon Musk’s America PAC. In Michigan, canvassers and paid door knockers for the former president, contracted by a firm associated with America PAC, have been subjected to poor working conditions: A number of them have been driven around in the back of a seatless U-Haul van, according to video obtained…

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Did Biden put his foot in his mouth yet again, or was it just an apostrophe?

Did Biden put his foot in his mouth yet again, or was it just an apostrophe?

CNN reports: President Joe Biden on Tuesday tried to clean up comments he made earlier that sparked immediate backlash from many who interpreted them as referring to supporters of former President Donald Trump as “garbage.” Speaking during a Voto Latino get out-the-vote call, Biden — in reaction to Trump’s offensive rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday — said, “And just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico ‘a floating island of garbage.’ Well, let me…

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Over a third of trees globally face threat of extinction

Over a third of trees globally face threat of extinction

BBC News reports: Scientists assessing dangers posed to the world’s trees have revealed that more than a third of species are facing extinction in the wild. The number of threatened trees now outweighs all threatened birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians put together, according to the latest update to the official extinction red list. The news was released in Cali, Colombia, where world leaders are meeting at the UN biodiversity summit, COP 16, to assess progress on a landmark rescue plan…

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Protesters angry over Kamala Harris’s support for Israel should not forget what they stand to lose

Protesters angry over Kamala Harris’s support for Israel should not forget what they stand to lose

Gal Beckerman writes: Trump has made it clear how he views dissent. He has mused about throwing protesters in jail. He wants to revive the 1792 Insurrection Act so he can sic the military on those who might object to his policies. His defense secretary Mike Esper said that Trump proposed shooting demonstrators in the legs during the 2020 protests over the killing of George Floyd. This avowed, even gleeful, willingness to violently suppress any dissent from what Trump calls the “enemy within” is the main…

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Black people recognize what is happening to Palestinians

Black people recognize what is happening to Palestinians

Vann R. Newkirk II writes: In April 1952, W. E. B. Du Bois stepped onto the stage of the ballroom of the Hotel Diplomat in Midtown Manhattan. His beard was grizzled and he was still working out how to lecture through new dentures. In a word, he was old. During his long life, he’d witnessed the dawn of Jim Crow and the glow of the first atom bombs; the slaughter of the Comanche and the rivalry between the Soviet Union…

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The doctor who saw children shot in the head in Gaza—and tried to tell the world

The doctor who saw children shot in the head in Gaza—and tried to tell the world

Sophie Hurwitz writes: Dr. Feroze Sidhwa has volunteered as a trauma surgeon in Ukraine, Haiti, Burkina Faso, and Ghana. But when he went to Gaza in March and April of this year, it changed him. Sidhwa had never seen so much horror in his life. “There’s nothing like Gaza right now,” he said. “Almost 100 percent of Gaza’s population is homeless and displaced…does that sound like a place where people are going to survive?” With international journalists banned from Gaza…

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