I’ve always taken it for granted that candidates for office, especially the White House, would participate in debates, but maybe that isn’t going to happen this year. Former President Trump has repeatedly challenged Biden to debate including once last week. “I’ll do it right now on your show, I’ll challenge him right now,” Trump gleefully […]
I bet you couldn’t guess this, but I have an abnormal attraction to intellectual discussions. As much as I rag on academia, I grew up within it and had the same sensibilities as academics did in the 19th and for most of the 20th century. Smart people discussing important matters respectfully, intelligently, and relevantly will […]
New rules would bring back silencing provisions and create new system to limit the debate time on certain pieces of legislation. Image Credit: John Partipillo By Adam Friedman [Tennessee Lookout -CC BY-NC-ND 4.0] – Tennessee’s House Republican supermajority wants to close several speaking opportunities in its rules, which in the past allowed Democrats to slow down […]
Leave it to the Republicans to split voters instead of trying to bring them together. In this case it is one night that holds one GOP debate and two individual events on the calendar in Iowa. On January 10, just 5 days before the Iowa caucuses, CNN will hold a debate for the Republican primary […]
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