Here’s what I’m reading up on today:

• President Obama may name a new czar to oversee the country’s Ebola response. Meanwhile, a nurse from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital detailed just how underprepared the staff was to handle the virus.
• And speaking of Ebola, here’s a brief history of racist moral panic over disease. 
• There’s no end in sight for California’s drought.
• 40,000 voter registration forms submitted by black and Latino would-be voters magically disappeared in Georgia. 
• The San Francisco Giants will meet the Kansas City Royals in this year’s World Series.
• The inmate population at Rikers Island is the lowest it’s been in decades. So why have costs to run the prison risen so dramatically?
• Before gentrification, New York City was covered in graffiti — Hua Hsa writes in the New Yorker about the 1981 documentary "Stations of the Elevated."
• Pharrell Williams has gone Kanye West on us. 
• Junot Diaz writes about food.
• Sleep? You’re doing it wrong.