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Thanks, Obama: Republicans blame the president for opening a can of worms by overriding his veto of 9/11 bill
Sophia Tesfaye
After voting for the bill, Mitch McConnell complained the Saudi 9/11 law could have "unintended ramifications"
Hate, unleashed: How Donald Trump unleashed the right-wing bigots that the GOP once kept under control
Heather Digby Parton
Republicans have cashed in on ugly bigotry for years, while keeping the worst offenders under wraps. No longer.
Israel’s “biggest dreamer”: Bill Clinton praises Shimon Peres at former president’s funeral
The Associated Press
Joined by President Obama, Clinton said Peres was a "wise champion of our common humanity"
President Obama stung by first veto override of his administration, on 9/11 bill
Kathleen Hennessey
The White House saw it coming, but still it stung.
Gary Johnson can’t name a single foreign leader. Can we stop pretending he’s a real alternative now?
Heather Digby Parton
The Libertarian nominee can't name a foreign leader but has a dangerous agenda and can tip the election
In the Trump Matrix: The GOP nominee is a hopeless narcissist, living in his own fantasy universe — but maybe that’s what Americans want
Andrew O'Hehir
Donald Trump stands for nothing and no one, except himself. Does America really yearn to breathe his brain farts?
Congress overrides Obama veto for first time, letting 9/11 victims’ families sue Saudi Arabia
Associated Press
Congress voted overwhelmingly to allow Sept. 11 victims' relatives to sue Saudi Arabia, overriding president's veto
Israeli leader Shimon Peres, supposed “man of peace,” also had a bloody record of war
Ben Norton
Israel's "dovish" head of state oversaw a bloody massacre in Lebanon, dispossession of Palestinians, the Oslo farce
Trump’s other, other Iraq lie: He’s told differing stories about the 2011 troop withdrawal
Simon Maloy
Donald Trump blames Hillary Clinton for pulling troops out of Iraq, but in 2011 he blamed the Iraqi government
President Obama’s dire reminder to black voters: American “history can go backwards” like from post-Civil War Reconstruction to Jim Crow
Sophia Tesfaye
"If we don't vote, we can go backwards"
Fear of a woman president: How the white backlash against Obama fueled Hillary hate and the rise of Trump
Heather Digby Parton
For the right, Obama's "symbolic" presidency was bad enough — Trump is a last-ditch effort to turn back the clock
Shimon Peres, former Israel president, dies at 93
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The longtime politician was a key member of the Israel-Palestine peace process
“Where’s the beef?”: After Clinton and Trump went for style over substance, here are the burning issues we need to tackle at the next debate
Gary Legum
The first presidential debate was a study in contrasting styles, but these crucial issues were never even discussed
Killing people, breaking things and America’s winless wars: Details of the dismal U.S. military record
Nick Turse
"We have not shown an ability to achieve our stated political aims in a conclusive way at an acceptable cost"
“Down goes Trump! Down goes Trump!”: Burdened by his basket of deplorables, Donald Trump was easily knocked out by Hillary Clinton
Chauncey DeVega
In the fight of his life, Donald Trump was brought down by his basket of deplorables as much as Hillary Clinton
Look Again: The day’s most compelling images from around the globe
Salon Staff
Fascinating world views from wildfires in California to Ayotzinapa, Mexico and the 43 missing students
“A fundamental misunderstanding of accounting”: Scholars give Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton the fact-check treatment
Chad Williams, Emily J. Blanchard, Richard Painter, Valerie Hudson
The nominees' words, fact-checked by four experts
Clinton’s Trump trap: Hillary laid a series of snares, and Donald charged right into them
Amanda Marcotte
Hillary Clinton had two tasks for that debate: looking presidential and making Trump look like a fool. Nailed it
“He harassed, he shouted, he taunted, he talked over”: Here’s what the world thought of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton’s debate
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
People from around the world react to Clinton and Trump's performances
Belittling and “braggadocious”: Donald Trump was Donald Trump — the only surprise is that anyone is surprised
Gary Legum
Trump turned the debate with Hillary Clinton into a tour through the fever swamps of right-wing tropes he's nursed
Twitter goes bananas: From Hillary Clinton’s pantsuit to Donald Trump’s snorting, the social-media hits and misses
Matthew Rozsa
The sniffles, the tax returns, the pantsuit, the birtherism and the rest of the Twitter firestorm of Debate No. 1
Donald Trump’s big debate problem: Hillary Clinton hit the right note on race; Donald Trump went off the rails
Simon Maloy
At Monday night's presidential debate, voters got to see the ugly racial core of Donald Trump's campaign
Ranking Donald Trump’s biggest whoppers: Lies of the first presidential debate
Brendan Gauthier
Fact-checking Trump: His tax returns, his global warming "hoax," his role in the birther movement
“I say nothing”: Birther godfather Donald Trump declines to apologize to African-Americans, Obama in first debate
Sophia Tesfaye
"I was the one that got him to produce the birth certificate," Trump claimed. "I think I did a good job"
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