Overnight ratings for Night Two of the conventions. Seven networks combined: DNC - 11.9 (10p-11:45p) RNC - 7.7 (10-11:15p) Difference: 55%

"Israel could not be continuing this war...if it didn't have the constant flow of American weaponry." Former Israeli negotiator Daniel Levy on the Biden administration's role in a ceasefire deal.

Where does Harris's economic policy compare to what went before? John Cassidy good on context to anti-price gouging & child tax credit The New Yorker newyorker.com/news/the-finan…

I think #Oasis should tour with The Kinks & call it The Brotherly Love Tour. And maybe add Cain & Abel as Special Guests?

Good work from the Office for Budget Responsibility.

The Biden-Harris admin has taken anti-trust action against: -Amazon -Apple -Google -Microsoft -Meta -Kroger -JetBlue -Live Nation/Ticketmaster -Nvidia -OpenAI -RealPage Antitrust is back in a very big way — we need to keep spreading the word.

Tel Aviv right now. General strike tomorrow. Do the damn deal. (Photo Tally Melamed.)

"The striking thing about the Harris-Walz economic platform is that Biden-Harris, Whitmer-Shapiro or even Newsom-Pritzker would have been similar." John Cassidy Bharat Ramamurti on the Dems' plans for opportunity, accountability and rebalancing power. newyorker.com/news/the-finan…

BREAKING: In a stunning moment on CNBC, former PA GOP Senator Pat Toomey says he won’t be voting for Trump in November: “When you lose an election and you try to overturn the results so that you can stay in power, you lose me. You lose me at that point.”

FINALLY! I have gotten so sick of the #DoubleStandards media employed between Joe Biden and Donald J. Trump #DonOLD is 78 years old ... will be 82 by the end of the next presidential term. He is barely campaigning b/c he tires quickly. Bravo MSNBC! msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-…

A must read article by CNN, which correctly warns that Elon Musk’s posts, and the lack of scrutiny they receive from his company’s own fact-checking system, “lay bare how Musk has turned X into a pro-Trump machine.” cnn.com/2024/09/03/med…

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be at this year’s New Yorker Festival, talking with John Cassidy about a new kind of capitalism. Sunday, October 27 at 3 p.m. ET. Tickets available here: nyer.cm/zCmbo30

Pleased to announce that I’ll be talking with the one and only Joseph E. Stiglitz about the future of capitalism, freedom, and who knows what else, at this year’s New Yorker Festival. Looking forward to it! Get your tickets here: nyer.cm/zCmbo3

Here is a corrected link for tickets to the New Yorker festival. festival.newyorker.com/?utm_medium=re…

By now it is clear that there is nothing #Netanyahu could do or say that would lead Secretary Antony Blinken to withhold U.S. support. A more ineffectual approach to diplomacy is hard to imagine, and the failure to achieve any positive results is entirely predictable.

No, it's exactly the issue, Ben. When people are paying you $400k a month, which is more money than they have ever made before by far, they didn't wonder: Gee, who has that kind of money, and why are they spending it on me?

Catherine Rampell It’s so unfair. The guy on the left keeps trying to make a point but the guy on the right keeps interrupting him and changing the subject.

Great, dogged reporting from ⁦@npr : The thug who pushed the Arlington cemetery official is a Trump staffer who helped organize the January 6 rally. The guy who joined him in berating the official is Trump’s deputy campaign manager. npr.org/2024/09/05/nx-…

From the Vice Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Shameful.

The UK's economy has stagnated since 2008 🇬🇧 In terms of GDP per capita - economic output divided by the number of people in a country - we've actually gone backwards. A short 🧵 on the countries that the UK was richer than in 2007, but which have since overtaken us...