None of the Above

ISIS is coming for you. Ebola is making its way across the borders. This season’s campaign ads (some of which include video from ISIS) have turned the ballot box into a panic room. From TNR, here’s how irrational fears shape elections.

+ Unlike most of us, Lewis Rubinson had something to be afraid of: “A few days after he accidentally stuck himself with a needle in an Ebola ward in Sierra Leone … his temperature topped 103 degrees.” From WaPo’s Frances Stead Sellers: Exposed.