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The United States is unique in many ways, but the most important is that we have had 240 years of uninterrupted peaceful, democratic transitions of power. The military follows civilian orders, so we’ve never had a coup. Presidents who are voted out leave office, so we’ve never had an armed revolution.

He then claimed that the offensive to recapture Mosul was driven purely by a desire to help Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

There are many questions about how Wikileaks obtained emails from Clinton’s campaign chairman, and what it has done with them. But just because the emails may have been hacked by a foreign power does not mean Clinton should not have to answer for their contents.

Speaking about his opposition to abortion, Donald Trump baffled many listeners by appearing to confuse late-term abortion with a C-section.

Here’s one thing you won’t see tonight: an in-depth discussion of racial justice and what it will take to make America a place where people of all backgrounds and treated fairly.

In the two prior presidential debates and one vice presidential debate, the closest we’ve seen was a question in the vice-presidential debate about “race relations” — specifically relationships between ethnic minorities and the police.

But the phrase “race relations” suggests that the root problem is a lack of comity between people of different racial backgrounds, rather than recognizing that the lack of comity is one symptom of a larger problem of racial inequalities and injustice.

Here’s some important facts about racial justice in America:

@ Nearly two out of every five black kids live in poverty, a rate three times as high as white kids.
@ White median household health is nearly 13 times higher than black household wealth, with Hispanics only slightly ahead of African Americans.
@ African Americans are incarcerated at six times the rate of white Americans.
@ Systemic inequalities that are often drawn along racial lines have created an immense human toll. The black homicide rate is almost seven times as high as the white homicide rate. In New Orleans, “54 percent of children ages 10 to 16 have had a close friend or relative murdered and nearly 40 percent have witnessed domestic violence.”