Presidential debates can be tedious, hard to follow, and kind of useless a year ahead of Election Day. Moderators have limited time. Candidates, eager to stand out in the crowd—tonight on CNN, twelve ...

Debates need to be more vibrant. How? Easy. Have an intermission with arm wrestling. Get Clint Eastwood to moderate it. Have fact checkers separating fact from fiction live during the debate.

It started to hit me that debate prep might actually be fun when I realized that George W. Bush had to answer pretty much any question I asked. That was in 2000, and I was playing the moderator in ...

With the first presidential debate one month away, Lanhee J. Chen gives Trump five steps he can take to win the debate and make the campaign competitive again.

5 Tips for Winning a Debate You might not be on a national stage like Mitt Romney and President Obama, but you can take some cues from the pros. Here’s how to win even the most casual debate.