WASHINGTON – The Democrats’ seventh presidential debate plays out Sunday night in a city that has come to represent all that’s wrong with government. For 18 months, corrosive water from the Flint River leached lead into the drinking supply of Flint, Michigan, an impoverished, majority-black city whose local government was under state control. And so it’s in Flint that Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders will face off in a debate designed to showcase their competing ideas about how to make government work better for ordinary Americans. With just two days to go before Michigan’s presidential primary, expect the candidates to place considerable focus on the...
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