Snapshot

What We’re Reading

‘Socialism Is Good Now’: Baby Boomers were raised to fear socialism, writes Zach Carter, but for Millennials, the ideology means something very different. (Zach Carter, HuffPost)

Preventable Deaths: According to a new investigation, thousands of new mothers die or are severely injured in the United States every year because hospitals fail to follow simple safety procedures. (Alison Young, USA Today)

‘Trump in a Funhouse Mirror’: The populist vision of Elizabeth Warren, a potential 2020 contender, is surprisingly similar to the president’s, argues Noah Rothman. (NBC News)

Uhhh: One Virginia Democrat accused her Republican opponent of being “a devotee of Bigfoot erotica.” Actually, he says, he wrote Bigfoot “satire.” (Ron Charles, The Washington Post)

Visualized

Where the Battlegrounds Are: There are more House districts in play for the Democrats this midterm season than analysts expected—and their demographics might be surprising. (Nate Cohn, The New York Times)

Forty Years of Black Power: Many of the black radicals who were jailed in the 1960s and 1970s are just now being released from prison. This timeline in pictures explores the history of their movement. (The Guardian)

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