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A.M. Links: GOP Debate, Democrats Growing Nervous About Hillary, U.S. and Russia Will Talk Syria

Damon Root | 9.17.2015 9:00 AM


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    The leading Republican presidential candidates debated for three hours last night at the Ronald Reagan Library in California.

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Damon Root is a senior editor at Reason and the author of A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution (Potomac Books).