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Trump now wants to lock up Kamala Harris

Over the weekend, Donald Trump began branding Vice President Kamala Harris a criminal. “She should be charged and prosecuted for her actions,” he once claimed. At another, he pointedly paused his speech while the crowd chanted “Lock her up!” It…

Mark Robinson and the problem of Republican nutcases

On Thursday afternoon, CNN reported that North Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson frequently visited a porn site where he referred to himself as a “black Nazi,” said he wished slavery were still legal, insulted Martin Luther King, and expressed…

Is the world conspiring to pretend Trump lost the debate?

Immediately after the presidential debate, most reporters and analysts painted a similar picture of events: Kamala Harris had provoked Donald Trump into an angry, often incoherent performance. Why did so many journalists who witnessed the same event describe it in…