This week’s articles of note

"'Stranger Danger' and the decline of Halloween," Wall Street Journal, by Lenore Skenazy

"Nudge the vote," The New York Times Magazine, by Sasha Issenberg

"Obama and the mid-terms: how did it come to this?" The Economist

"Lunch with the FT: Bill Gates", Financial Times, by Gideon Rachman

"Overdrive: who really rescued General Motors?" The New Yorker, by Malcolm Gladwell

"The coming death shortage," The Atlantic, by Charles C. Mann