When challenged on the alleged role of Moscow in the murder of journalists, Trump engaged in what is typically known as "whataboutery" (or the "look over there!" approach to debate), responding: "Our country does plenty of killing also".
What seems to be making conservatives apoplectic is that their typical approach to debate -- lies, misinformation, out of context quoting, strained guilt-by-association attacks -- isn't working.
At the time I first read it, I was skeptical of this and other accounts of Trump's slacker approach to debate prep, thinking it was campaign spin to lower expectations.
Wadah Khanfar and Anas Fouda -- the head of Integral Media Strategies, our partner in HuffPost Arabi, and editor-in-chief, respectively -- are both accomplished journalists, and we have every confidence that they'll bring a balanced approach to debate in the Middle East. .
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He went on to say that the GOP should take "a free market approach" to debates and "have as many debates as possible and let candidates decide which ones they should go to".
Campaign officials said they wished Mr. Obama had called out Mr. Romney on assertions that they said were untrue, although they conceded that some of the weaknesses in the president's performance were simply part of his approach to debates, which is to shy away from highly personal confrontations.
We can only hope that some day this young woman will again have a virtual space, without limits, without fear of approaching anyone to debate an idea; without having to make any concessions to censorship.
AS THE second anniversary of Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy approaches, economists continue to debate whether the bank could or should have been saved.
The biggest problem with both Ehrlich and Simon's approaches to this debate — and, I'd argue, with American political dialogue generally right now — is that they did not listen well to the other side, or acknowledge the uncertainties and limitations inherent in their own arguments.
