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May 15, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
Pathetic Trump Already Trying to Weasel Out of Debating Biden
After agreeing to two debates with Biden, Donald Trump seems to be trying to set up an excuse to escape the whole thing.
April 24, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
The Insane Moment Tennessee Republicans Voted to Put Guns in Schools
State Republican lawmakers cut off debate to force the bill through.
April 5, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
The Bonkers Reason Why Lara Trump Thinks Trump and Biden Should Debate
The new RNC co-chair had some interesting thoughts on a potential presidential debate.
December 1, 2023
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
All the Things That Went Wrong for Ron DeSantis in His Latest Debate Failure
If the Florida governor thought going toe-to-toe with Gavin Newsom would revive his flagging presidential campaign, he’d better think again.
August 22, 2023
Ben Jacobs
The New Republican Debate Rules Suck
In recent years, the political parties have gone to great lengths to micromanage these affairs. It’s only made things worse.
November 1, 2022
Walter Shapiro
The 2022 Midterms Are the Ultimate Triumph of Campaign Consultants
For decades, strategists have been trying to control candidates. Now, with fewer debates and events, they’ve finally gotten their way.
January 14, 2022
Alex Shephard
Let the Presidential Debates Die
The RNC is threatening to boycott the 2024 presidential debates if changes aren’t made. Everyone will be better off if it does.
July 31, 2020
Alex Shephard
Let’s Cancel the Presidential Debates Forever
Like political conventions, they serve the interests of cable news programmers and no one else.
July 11, 2019
Emily Atkin
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Brian Kahn
Why We’re Challenging the 2020 Democrats to a Climate Summit
This crisis deserves far more than 15 minutes of airtime.
October 14, 2015
Laura Reston
Americans Love an Underdog—Just Not Lincoln Chafee, Jim Webb, or Martin O’Malley
July 7, 2014
Michael Kazin
If the U.S. Had Not Entered World War I, Would There Have Been a World War II?
Why Woodrow Wilson should never have intervened in Europe
July 7, 2014
John M. Cooper
Why Woodrow Wilson Was Right to Bet on World War I
May 29, 2013
Jonathan Alter
Obama's Choke Revisited
What his first debate tells us about his troubled second term
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