During the debate, you will hear from the columnists with their quick takes on the candidates' policy statements, their debating styles, and who's winning and who's losing.
Bill Twomey Throgs Neck, the Bronx The writer is the author of five books on Bronx history and is the history columnist with The Bronx Times Reporter.
"This is Texas poker, with the President putting everything on Iraq," a Republican senator told the columnist Robert Novak, with relish.
The columnist Jim Qwilleran, with the help of his cats, looks into a mysterious death.
The columnist Jonathan Chait, with vivid imagery, wrote that "Camp has actually plunged his hands into the guts of the tax code and pulled out item after item.
Directed by Doug Hughes ("Doubt," "The Whipping Man"), it is a drama about free speech and intolerance and will star four-time Tony winner Boyd Gaines, now in "The Columnist," along with Richard Thomas ("Race").
Last year, the authorities there were threatening Ann Coulter, the conservative columnist, with prosecution for knowingly voting in the wrong district.
"The Wood" by Dan Klores examines the life of Mike McAlary, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning columnist with the whisk-broom mustache who himself seemed to have stepped right out of "The Front Page".
But the passing of The Citizen prompted Charlie Arlinghaus, a columnist with the New Hampshire Union Leader, to "take a hard look at the myths surrounding newspapers, news and civic engagement".
She had a spell working in the UAE as a features writer and columnist with The National, the English-language newspaper based in Abu Dhabi.
