This week’s articles of note

"A blue state's road to red," Washington Post, by Karen Tumulty

"Democrats are stupid, too," Bloomberg View, by Clive Crook

"Bill de Blasio and the new urban populism," The New York Times, by Thomas B. Edsall

"The case for hate speech," The Atlantic, by Jonathan Rauch

"Of course the world is better now than it was in 1900," Slate, by Bjorn Lomborg

"From the department of petty controversies: schools cancel Halloween," Time, by Nick Gillespie

"Only disconnect: two cheers for boredom," The New Yorker, by Evgeny Morozov