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Headlines for Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Afternoon Edition

McCain calls on Alaska’s Stevens to resign.

McCain’s problems are not technical… They are institutional, to do with his colleagues, his advisers, and his supporters.

The Anchorage Daily News: “It is Sen. Obama who truly promises fundamental change in Washington.”

Those who despise science… are secretly envious of the educated and the cultured. Hitchens on Palin’s anti-science stance.

Op: No other Republican candidate was so poorly suited to the task of running a presidential race.

Conservatives following Blankley and Rush are being led down a magical path to irrelevance.

Sarah Hepola: How the financial crisis ruined my love life.

Polish man prosecuted for linking president’s web site to searches for “a synonym for the male genitalia.”

Supported by Petraeus, White House considers talking to the Taliban to decrease downward spiral in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Instapaper for the commute: Profile of “the godfather of Bangalore”; profile of Greg Carr’s investments in Mozambique.

Chicago Tribune report on Japan’s most famous Obama impersonator.

“Your travel guide to Illinois’ ghosts, local legends, and best secrets.”

Photos of coughs, gas leaks, and other invisible things that cause micro-changes in air density.

Morning Edition

When we awake Nov. 5, no failure of administration should have tarnished our outsize pride in our democracy. Election workers must rely on backup strategies, not litigation.

As Election Day approacheth, the press prepares boilerplate responses, trying to avoid Messiah, winds of change cliches.

In Indiana, call center workers protest McCain scripts, walk off job.

Envy and arrogance are the two opposite sides of the same black crystal. Teddy Roosevelt ponders the bailout, the campaign.

Obama’s chief strategist, confidant explains how to win the white vote, why believing in the candidate matters most.

Today’s long read: In the war on urban poverty cities are not victims, zoos won’t help, another round of federal investment isn’t the answer.

How both candidates have assumed the role of president while campaigning, to appear more presidential, surely.

Op: Important writers set themselves the task…of promoting Palin and, in the process, making perfect asses of themselves. They succeeded at both.

Scott Horton: Sarah Palin doesn’t need to fear “a socialist state in which American freedoms are undermined”—it’s already here.

“I’m not defending this; I’m not criticizing it.” West Hollywood house hangs Palin effigy on a noose; police say it’s not a hate crime, it’s Halloween.

Do you understand The New Yorker’s cartoons? Take the test and see.

The seven types of pet costumes; TMN’s Geoff Badner and Todd Levin cover the Fort Greene dog costume parade.

Video: The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne shows off his double-neck “Guitar Hero” guitar.

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