Tuesday morning roundup

Glenn Kessler fact-checks last night's debate.

It's not a good time to have ever been a moderate or pragmatist.

The point I'm about to make is not the main one of this column asking that we reclaim Uncle Tom, but it's related: it's unfortunate that dramatizing a book led to its oversimplification and to undue sentimentality, at the expense of depth and truth to the characters.