In this era, debates will be increasingly zero-sum, bipartisan compromise will be increasingly difficult, and "the rules and norms of our politics that several generations have taken for granted" will fade away into irrelevance.
In the Obama era, debates over the economy and health care crowded out arguments about sex education and embryo destruction, and liberals found a new set of right-wing extremists to worry about: Tea Party activists, birth certificate obsessives, the Koch brothers.
And here is a question for a digital-era debate: is anything lost by taking a picture book and converting it to an e-book?
THE ARTS, PAGE E1 A Voice on Voting Rights The work of John G. Roberts Jr., the Supreme Court nominee, in the Reagan-era debate on voting-rights law is drawing scrutiny.
It is often said that politicians and generals are always fighting the last war; in this case, Alex Lasker and Patrick Cirillo, the screenwriters, and Antoine Fuqua, the director, appear to be applying Rambo-style revanchist methods to a Clinton-era debate about humanitarian intervention.
"With the intense crisis-era debate over financial services regulation, anything that happens at the SEC quickly becomes political," said Stephen J. Crimmins, a former deputy chief litigation counsel in the SEC's enforcement division who now works as a partner at K&L Gates.
Statistics Across Eras Debating the legacy of players who used steroids offers few clear answers.
Many 19th-century censures were for "unparliamentary language," a grab-bag for name-calling, mud-slinging and insults, mostly in Civil War-era debates.
In the 1970s Schlafly decided to go back to Washington University to study for a law degree, because it would help in her anti-ERA debates.
"Those who support these policies are imposing their vision on everyone else".Opposition to bussing on these grounds is only about five decades old, and I don't particularly want to get into Nixon-era debates on the subject.
Indeed, rather than talk about how to exert American might -- the subtext of the famous Nixon-Kennedy debates in 1960 and so many of the cold-war-era debates that followed -- they spent much of the time politely warning of the foreign entanglements they might avoid.
