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Blow: The darker aims behind Trump’s vilification of Haitians

Trump knows what works and may use it not just to halt immigration but revoke immigrants’ citizenship.

Collins: Is ‘perennial third-party candidate’ best Stein can do?

Does the Green Party’s Jill Stein really want to have helped Donald Trump twice to the White House?

Schwab: Heeding conservatives, a pop star and your conscience

On the off chance that facts matter and voters are paying attention, a wrap-up of the past week.

Bouie: Trump, Vance know what they’re doing in Springfield

Where Trump once only sympathized with hate groups, now he leads the attack against communities.

Krugman: Republicans fine with higher taxes if Trump says so

What does a failed Soviet agricultural policy have to do with tariffs? It’s blind belief in leaders.

Stephens: What Harris must do to earn votes of the undecided

Trump is unfit, but so far Harris hasn’t answered questions as to why she’s ready to lead the nation.

Goldberg: A state’s abortion ban has resulted in woman’s death

Once states began banning abortion, more women were denied treatment when pregnancy complications arose.

Krugman: Demonizing immigrants could ruin revival of cities

Immigrants in the U.S. heartland are bringing growth and jobs to once-diminished cities.

Tufekci: Instagram’s new protections for kids aren’t enough

Without age verification, youths can create fake accounts and avoid the safeguards put in place.

Comment: Boeing workers have leverage to make real change

Along with pay, workers could assure better future for Boeing by disincentivizing share buybacks.

Douthat: That many are undecided should surprise no one

One is too chaotic and paranoid to lead, but the other comes from a party with a record of policy failure.

Kristof: Climate peril we overlook has already arrived

We’re living — rather, dying — with the climate crisis as heat and smoke claim more lives each day.

Paul: Worried about ‘President’ Harris? That’s tomorrow’s problem.

Those undecided should focus on saving the Constitution. The policy fights with Harris can wait.

Krugman: Fact check: Europe doing more for Ukraine than U.S.

Among his misstatements, Trump got it wrong that Europe has provided less aid than the U.S. has.

Paul: Parsing line between vocabulary fairness and euphemism

There are reasons to remake terms like ‘felon,’ ‘homeless’ and ‘slave,’ but they flirt with robbing language’s impact.

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Bouie: Trump is incomprehensible, but there’s a message there

Amid the jumble of thoughts, understand that he intends economic and political retribution for himself.

Goldberg: Why is Tucker Carlson entertaining Holocaust denial?

It’s about making authoritarianism permissible in the present and imaginable in the future.

Krugman: Harris absolutely shouldn’t explain Biden’s economy

Not because it’s a bad record (just the opposite) but because voters can’t be convinced otherwise.

Schwab: Breaking down debate lies for Trump’s unshakable 30%

No doubt, they’re certain he won, but if only they would stop for a moment and look past the bluster.