democratic debate

#DemDebate Live Blog – (Kicking off at 2am BST)

Pádraig Belton on April 14, 2016, 4:53 pm | Readers 384

My good friend Ollie has been kind enough to offer to live-blog this evening’s US Democratic debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernard Sanders, from New York City where he will be attending it for us. The debate starts at 9 pm, 2 am for many of our British and Irish readers. He’ll introduce himself here in a little bit, but I’d just wanted to say a warm word of welcome, and to tip off all of you who might happen to …

Friday Thread: The lost art of democratic debate…

Mick Fealty on June 11, 2010, 1:23 pm | Readers 8

Great TED lecture from Professor Michael Sandel who argues that in order to rejuvenate an old style inclusive political debate we must enable citizens to bring their own moral convictions to bear on democratic argument… Mick FealtyMick is founding editor of Slugger. He has written papers on the impacts of the Internet on politics and the wider media and is a regular guest and speaking events across Ireland, the UK and Europe. Twitter: @MickFealty