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Candidates: You are here

New York is epicenter of most pressing domestic issues

The etiquette in presidential debates seems to be this: Each candidate opens with a brief word of thanks to the host institution and its community, and then proceeds to ignore them for the next 90 minutes, to focus on national and global concerns. There are plenty of good reasons why tonight's debate ought to be different.

We're not just saying that because it happens to be taking place on...

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