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Displaying all articles tagged:
Debate
the national interest
Sept. 29, 2020
Here Are All Trump’s Advance Excuses for Biden’s Debate Performance
From brain pills to secret earpieces.
By
Jonathan Chait
rap battles
Feb. 20, 2020
Elizabeth Warren Ethering Bloomberg Is the Best Diss Track of 2020
A fan edit turns Warren into 2001 Nas.
By
Zoe Haylock
commuting
Dec. 13, 2018
We Solved the Holland Tunnel’s Disastrous Decoration Crisis
The Port Authority is conducting a poll to update the decorations, but we have another suggestion.
By
Kelly Conaboy
french elections
May 4, 2017
The French Presidential Debate Was Shades of Trump-Clinton
Vicious insults, an overwhelmed moderator, and talk about Hitler.
By
Heather Hurlburt
Oct. 20, 2016
4 Answers Trump Could Have Given to Question About Accepting Election Results
That would have satisfied his base and not further damaged his candidacy.
By
Ed Kilgore
select all
Oct. 19, 2016
28 Funny Tweets That Summarized the Debate
Puppets, Putin, and so many pivots.
By
Madison Malone Kircher
abortion rights
Oct. 19, 2016
Watch Hillary Clinton Passionately Defend a Woman’s Right to Choose
“I will stand up for that right.”
By
Theresa Avila
select all
Oct. 19, 2016
Trump Said ‘Bad Hombres’ and All of Twitter Responded With the Same Hair Joke
“We have some bad hombres here and we’re gonna get them out.”
By
Madison Malone Kircher
the body politic
Oct. 10, 2016
Trump’s One Public Service Was Exposing the Misogyny of the GOP
This weekend, Trump went down in a blaze of revelation, tying his own outsize loutishness to the everyday misogyny of his party.
By
Rebecca Traister
run away
Oct. 9, 2016
Some Creepy Guy Kept Standing Right Behind Hillary Clinton at the Debate
Look out, Hillary!
By
Claire Landsbaum
Oct. 9, 2016
The Top Dictionary Search During the Debate Was ‘Lepo.’ As in, ‘What’s a Lepo?’
“What’s a lepo?”
By
Brian Feldman
good try
Oct. 9, 2016
Watch Anderson Cooper Try to Get Donald Trump to Admit to Groping Women
“You bragged about sexually assaulting women. Do you understand that?”
By
Claire Landsbaum
politics
Oct. 9, 2016
Will Trump Go Nuclear at the Debate — or Just Melt Down?
A wounded Trump seems ready to lash out on Sunday night, but there may be no way for the candidate to avoid disaster.
By
Chas Danner
everyday sexism
Oct. 5, 2016
Guess How Many Times the Moderator Was Interrupted During the VP Debate
Spoiler: a lot of times.
By
Claire Landsbaum
Oct. 5, 2016
Kaine Lost the Debate, But May Have Fulfilled His Mission
Pence met his complex objectives quite well. Kaine had an easier job of hitting Trump’s weak points, which he did without much style.
By
Ed Kilgore
Oct. 4, 2016
Pence’s Choice: Defend the GOP or Defend His Boss
Pence has taken positions on foreign and domestic affairs very different from Trump’s. Can he credibly abandon his and his party’s entire record?
By
Ed Kilgore
Sept. 27, 2016
Surprising Number of Debate-Watchers Saw What They Wanted To See: A Trump Win
Keep in mind the people most likely to watch weren’t the undecided.
By
Ed Kilgore
last night on late night
Sept. 27, 2016
Let Seth Meyers Give You the Play-by-Play of the First 2016 Presidential Debate
“American politics can be summarized by these few words: Howard Stern, Rosie O’Donnell, Miss Piggy.”
By
Tolly Wright
Sept. 27, 2016
Donald Trump Interrupted Hillary Clinton Many, Many, Many Times at the Debate
I guess he just had a lot to say.
By
Christine Nguyen
Sept. 27, 2016
Hillary Clinton Won the First Debate. What If That Doesn’t Move the Polls?
It would indicate that American voters are so polarized that the race will come down to one key factor.
By
Ed Kilgore
Mar. 4, 2016
Trump Gets Hit, Kasich Gets Boost in Fox Debate
The Fox debate in Detroit provided a good start for the anti-Trump cabal that aims for victory — for somebody — in Cleveland.
By
Ed Kilgore
early and often
Dec. 20, 2015
The Highlights of the 3rd Democratic Presidential Debate
Clinton once again dominated and Bernie apologized while O’Malley shouted for scraps — but everybody agreed about Donald Trump.
By
Chas Danner
early and often
Dec. 19, 2015
Watch the 3rd Democratic Debate With Daily Intelligencer
Expect lots of questions about foreign policy.
Oct. 28, 2015
GOP Candidates Whine About Greenrooms
Republicans believe in equality of opportunity, not of outcome.
By
Eric Levitz
2016
Aug. 5, 2015
Donald Trump Is Keeping His Fingers Crossed for a ‘Very Civil’ Debate
Unless, of course, anyone attacks him first.
By
Jaime Fuller
urban planning
May 1, 2015
Which New York Is Yours?
Talking to Jeremiah Moss of
Vanishing New York
and Nikolai Fedak of New York YIMBY, 50 years after the Landmark Law.
By
Justin Davidson
debate
Apr. 14, 2014
Explaining Ed Sheeran: A Debate About Your Newest Teen Idol
He was on
Saturday Night Live
this weekend.
By
Amanda Dobbins
and
Lindsey Weber
June 17, 2013
Emily Heller Says Her High School Debate Team Trained Her to Do Comedy
“One of the things I learned in debate that helped me not just with comedy but with everything is, learning how to make analogies. One of the […]
By
Bradford Evans
debate
Jan. 25, 2013
Michael Moore Defends
Zero Dark Thirty
And calls it a “21st century chick flick.”
By
Jesse David Fox
debate
Dec. 18, 2012
Important: Is It Spelled
Les Mis
or
Les Miz
?
Kyle Buchanan and Amanda Dobbins fight it out.
By
Kyle Buchanan
and
Amanda Dobbins
torture porn
Dec. 14, 2012
The
Zero Dark Thirty
Torture Debate Kept Going This Week
The issue of whether the film condones torture is far from settled.
By
Jesse David Fox
video
Oct. 17, 2012
A Supercut of Women’s Issues at Last Night’s Debate
Lorraine? May I call you Lorraine?
deep thoughts
Oct. 17, 2012
‘Already Tired of #Debate’: Celebrity Tweets From the Presidential Debate
What Iman and Snooki were thinking about during last night’s town hall debate.
By
Sally Holmes
Oct. 17, 2012
How to Be a Good Single Mom, According to Obama and Romney
Only one requires you to get married before you have the baby so it doesn’t grow up to be a killer.
By
Kat Stoeffel
Oct. 15, 2012
Debate-Expectations Lowering 2.0: Media Won’t Let Romney Win
He’s a victim of his own success.
By
Margaret Hartmann
Oct. 11, 2012
Chait and Ponnuru on the Veep Debate
“I think it will be brutal.”
By
Jonathan Chait
and
Ramesh Ponnuru
impolitic
Oct. 11, 2012
Heilemann: Joe Biden Explains His Plan to Defeat Paul Ryan
Be aggressive, substantive, and don’t forget you’re a proxy for the president.
By
John Heilemann
Oct. 5, 2012
Jon Stewart and Bill O’Reilly Are Getting Along Great Ahead of Debate
Cable news personalities Bill O’Reilly and Jon Stewart are set to debate each other this weekend in The Rumble 2012, a live event in […]
By
Bradford Evans
massachusetts
Oct. 2, 2012
Scott Brown Gets in Debate Zinger, Distances Himself Even More From GOP
Brown refuses to call himself a “reliable” Romney ally.
By
Margaret Hartmann
Sept. 20, 2012
In First Debate, Warren Attacks Brown’s Record, He Emphasizes His Bipartisanship
Plus: a cameo from his truck.
By
Margaret Hartmann
Sept. 18, 2012
Jon Stewart and Bill O’ Reilly to Debate Political Things
On October 6, Jon Stewart and Bill O’ Reilly are going to square off on the Internet in The Rumble In the Air-Conditioned Auditorium. […]
By
Jesse David Fox
presidential debates
Sept. 16, 2012
Obama Doesn’t Want to Bore Us During the Debates
Keep it simple, Mr. President.
By
Margaret Hartmann
the national interest
Nov. 16, 2011
Does the GOP Elite Still Decide? It’s Debatable
The GOP’s drama-filled debates could spell the end of the smoke-filled room.
By
Jonathan Chait
debate
Oct. 10, 2011
Breaking Bad
Postmortem: Discussing Last Night’s Episode and the Show’s Future
Emily Nussbaum and Logan Hill hash it out.
By
Emily Nussbaum
and
Logan Hill
masterdebaters
Aug. 12, 2011
Video: Watch Highlights From Tonight’s Republican Primary Debate in Iowa
Spoiler alert: Newt Gingrich really, really hates the debt-reduction super-committee.
By
Sarah Frank
debate
Mar. 11, 2009
Nazi-Sex Novel
The Kindly Ones
Polarizes Western Civilization
Reactions to the confession of an SS officer, a sort of evil Forrest Gump, who reminisces about sleeping with his twin sister and possibly killing his mother.
By
Boris Kachka