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David Goldman / AP Donald Trump's Unproductive Monday Night
The Republican’s debate performance likely won’t calm voters’ apprehensions about his candidacy.
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Mike Segar / Reuters America's First Post-Christian Debate
The belief in a common purpose that long defined America’s civil religion was strikingly absent on Monday night.
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Joe Raedle / AP The Second Presidential Debate Will Try Something New
Ordinary Americans will be able to submit—and vote on—questions to be considered when the candidates meet again.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters When Donald Trump Got Caught Tweet-Handed
The Republican nominee illustrated a lesson for debating in the social-media era: Don’t lie about that which you’ve publicly tweeted.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Strange Tale of Trump's Taxes
During the debate, the Republican nominee seemed to confirm an accusation that he hadn’t paid any income tax, then reversed himself later.
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AP Trump Time Capsule #115: The First Debate
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Hillary Did What She Needed to Do
If undecided voters were looking for an excuse to come around to Clinton’s corner, they may have found it on Monday night.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Trump Time Capsule #114: Trump Foundation and Taxes
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters How Trump Lowered Expectations for the First Debate
Through a combination of working the refs, leaks that made him seem bumbling, and the numbing effects of months of campaigning, the Republican has smoothed his own path.
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Henry Romero / Reuters Why Style Matters as Much as Substance
Journalists need to perform “theater criticism” of debates as well as grade policy proposals; the trick is keeping them separate.
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Rick Wilking / Reuters What It Will Take to Win the Debate
Advice from campaign veterans as the two candidates prepare for their first debate
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Hillary Clinton and the Resurrection of Old-School Hysteria
There’s a long tradition in American life of using women’s health to discredit them—as conspiracy theorists have done with the Democratic nominee.
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Reuters Trump Time Capsule #113: Zero for 100, Zero for a Dozen
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Brian Snyder / Reuters The Four Donald Trumps You Meet on Earth
I swear there’s something familiar about this guy.
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Trump Time Capsule #112: Gennifer Flowers
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Wikimedia Trump Time Capsule #111: Ads
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Andrew Harnik / AP Five Reasons Why Ted Cruz's Endorsement of Donald Trump Is Stunning
The Texas senator’s about-face risks undermining his political brand and alienating the supporters who hailed his defiant stand in Cleveland.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters What President Trump's Supreme Court Would Look Like
The Republican candidate successfully wooed Ted Cruz by releasing an expanded list of potential justices.
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Arnd Wiegmann / Reuters Trump Time Capsule #110: Diplomats, Boss, Enquirer
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Matt Sullivan / Reuters Ohio Can't Purge Infrequent Voters From Its Rolls
A federal appeals court says the secretary of state violated the National Voting Rights Act when he moved to clean up voter rolls.
