The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. October 8, 2020 New England Journal of Medicine Calls on Voters to Vote Against Trump in First-Ever Endorsement ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For the first time in its 208-year history, The New England Journal of Medicine has weighed in on a U.S. election, calling on voters to reject Donald Trump. The journal's editors wrote, "[O]ur current political leaders have demonstrated that they are dangerously incompetent. We should not abet them and enable the deaths of thousands more Americans by allowing them to keep their jobs." .