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“The hope was to get in the presidential debates and that didn’t happen,” Johnson said.

When Jewell Christian Stewart was accepted into Hofstra University last year, little did he know he would be a stand-in for Lester Holt, moderator of the 2015 presidential debate at Hofstra University.

On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday during the school’s third period the students from each grade in turn heard their own peers, portraying U.S. Presidential Candidates Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Jill Stein and Gary Johnson, debate the issues facing the nation. The debates moderated by other

The 12 people vying to lead the federal Conservative Party also took jabs at the Trudeau government's proposed carbon tax and backed the idea of pipelines in their first leadership debate.

If there’s anything the televised debates of the past two years in Louisiana have taught us, says Jeremy Alford, it’s that the state desperately needs to create a nonpartisan, nonprofit commission on statewide TV debates.

Iran’s state television, a bastion of conservative ideologues, for once interrupted its regular programing about the “murders and crimes committed” by the United States and broadcast all three debates between Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump — live.

David Duke, the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan who is running for a U.S. Senate seat in Louisiana, became the focal point of an ugly election debate Wednesday night. He insisted that the political system is rigged, that Black Lives Matter activists are "destroying America," and that Hillary

Longwood impressed the commission with its approach to blending debate and presidential topics into its classroom studies.

The contest — a partnership between UNLV, CCSD, and LVCVA — challenged local public and district-sponsored charter school students in grades nine through 12 to submit essays answering: “Are Presidential Debates necessary: Why or why not?”

With all the criticism, conspiracy theories and doubt, the world is asking itself, are these debates worth the trouble? Do they make a difference? Do they even matter?