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What We Didn’t Hear at the Harris-Trump Debate

Climate change, the key issue of our time, was all but ignored. Plus: The latest from the Elon, Inc., podcast.

A Lake Elsinore, California, house in the path of the Airport Fire. The fire is now 19,000 acres and has forced evacuations to Lake Elsinore residents. 

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Businessweek editor Brad Stone watched the presidential debate on Tuesday night and found discussion of one existential question quite lacking. Plus: The Elon, Inc., crew talks Mars and more. If this email was forwarded to you, click here to sign up.

Tens of millions of people tuned in last night to see Kamala Harris and Donald Trump square off in Philadelphia, their first and possibly only presidential debate. Perhaps you watched, too, and saw the candidates joust over the economy, tariffs, abortion rights, deportation, the war between Israel and Hamas and, yeah, whether illegal immigrants are cooking and eating America’s pets.