What have debates taught us?
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The three presidential debates have come and gone and what have we learned? For one, debates are important, insofar as the first debate, won decisively by John Kerry, halted President Bush&#39;s campaign momentum and restarted Kerry&#39;s.
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Okay, wonks: Think you know how the political game works?
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Friday&#39;s lesson of the day at the Charles Schwab Cup Championship: When in doubt, fight back. If still in doubt, fight back some more.
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Monday will deliver a milestone in presidential campaign history, as user-generated video drives a debate.
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If he wanted, the Barack Obama of today could have a pretty good debate with the Barack Obama of yesterday. They could argue about whether the death penalty is ever appropriate. Whether it makes sense to ban handguns. They might explore their differences on the Patriot Act or parental notification of abortion.
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After a plethora of user-submitted videos that served as fuel for the banter among the eight Democratic presidential candidates at yesterday's CNN/YouTube political debate at the Citadel in South Carolina, the unasked question today remains this: Is it really a debate?
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CHARLESTON, S.C., July 23 -- Democratic presidential candidates shared the spotlight  Monday night with ordinary citizens from around the country in a two-hour debate that featured sharp and sometimes witty video questions and often equally sharp exchanges among the candidates on issues ranging from...
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There are a lot of bridge proverbs that we learn, proverbially, at our grandmotherâs knee. Bridge has survived because we can rarely use the words always and never in those maxims.
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Comment is free: Jonathan Freedland: Our progressive past can offer a new idea of what the state is for, and how it can help neighbourhood organisations to thrive.
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TONIGHTâS debate will be a duel between two delusional optimists. It pits a man who regards recent events in Iraq as âsteady progressâ against a man who, while accusing the President
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Comment is free: Karen Armstrong: Free speech is now the rallying cry of escalating tensions, but we can also use it to expose double standards on both sides.
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Points of trivia that might arise at dinner or over drinks used to lead to a brain-racking long debate. now, hand-held devices help settle disputes. (Look it up!)
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This fall's presidential debates will pit George W. Bush's folksy manner and big-picture brand of policymaking against John Kerry's more cerebral outlook and nuanced world view. Each is a proven debater who knows, only too well, what personal pitfalls to avoid: Bush must stifle the smirk, for instance, and Kerry must cut short his rhetorical rambling.
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At a time when much of our public discussion is riddled with disagreement, there is an emerging bipartisan consensus in one vitally important area: that the challenges facing
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If they resemble past debates, the impact this year will go well beyond a mere judgment of who won and who lost.
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More people will pay close attention to the three presidential debates than to any other events in the 2004 campaign. That by itself is a good reason - and not the only reason â-o consider the debates
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At least it was a wartime debate last Thursday night between President George W. Bush and John Kerry. But it didn&#39;t provide much clarity about what either candidate would do as a wartime