Kamala Harris Needs to Meet the Moment and Reframe Our Poisonous Immigration Debate

This is a dreadful moment in American politics—a crude juncture in the history of the nation. We’ve gotten to the point where the former president of the United States and his running-mate on the Republican Party’s national ticket are spreading wild lies about immigrants eating pets in order to drive wedges of division into communities and the nation as a whole. Yet, this is not the first such dreadful moment in this country. We are a land with a painful history of political demagoguery. A century ago, the Ku Klux...