Will Florida Decide the Presidential Race or Throw It Into Confusion?

Plus: the best horror movies without the gore, and what Democrats achieve by threatening to pack the Supreme Court. View in browser | Update your preferences Daily Comment Will Florida Decide the Presidential Race or Throw It Into Confusion? The state remains deeply polarized, and statewide races continue to be decided by razor-thin margins. By Dexter Filkins Our Columnists What the Democrats Achieve By Threatening to Pack the Supreme Court A Court with a vested interest in avoiding new constraints on its own power must take seriously the threat of growing support for court-packing or term limits. By Jeannie Suk Gersen Video Dept. What Foreign Journalists See in the U.S. Election In “The America Bureau,” reporters remark on the chaotic American Presidential campaign, and what it means for the rest of the world. By Yasmine Al-Sayyad The Front Row The Best Horror Movies for Halloween—Without the Gore These ten films suggest the extremes of experience that are evoked by the very effort to explore the supernatural, the haunted, the tormented, the dreadful, both outward and within. By Richard Brody Culture and More On Television The Unsettling Anti-Entertainment of “A World of Calm” The HBO Max series doesn’t just service a viewer’s mood but seeks to induce a new state of mind—namely, a deep state of relaxation, or even a good, long nap. By Carrie Battan On Television The Mischievous Irreverence of “The Good Lord Bird” Showtime’s miniseries about the militant abolitionist John Brown has no time for hagiography. By Doreen St. Félix Going Going Gone Early Holiday Shopping? Bid on Hitler’s Cocktail Bar “I look at it as criminal evidence,” the owner of Alexander Historical Auctions says about the wares he peddles, which include memorabilia of the Ku Klux Klan and Josef Mengele. By Nick Paumgarten Crossword The Crossword Feature on the underside of a cat’s paw, cutely: seven letters. By Aimee Lucido Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts Why I’m Leaving the Republican Party I depart from the party I once loved so much with an abiding faith in the ability of our citizens to rise above their disagreements and give me a multimillion-dollar contract at a cable news network. By Mike Gillis Daily Cartoon Wednesday, October 28th By David Sipress This e-mail was sent to you by The New Yorker. To insure delivery, we recommend adding newyorker@newsletters.newyorker.com, to your contacts, while noting that it is a no-reply address. Please send all newsletter feedback to tnyinbox@newyorker.com. For more from The New Yorker, sign up for our newsletters, shop the store, and sign in to newyorker.com, where subscribers always have unlimited access. Contact us with questions. View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2020. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.