As the candidates prepare for this year's presidential debates, a PBS special called "Debating Our Destiny" looks back at the debates of the past and talks to most of those who participated in them.

Boston College was founded in 1863 and Dean Father Robert Fulton, S.J., established a debating society in 1868. In the early years, interested students gathered to argue the issues of the day.

When you’re on a championship debate team, you’d better have a point, and a counter-point. NBC 6’s Ari Odzer watched the Cypress Bay High School debate team practice. It’s sort of like watching ...

Of all the ways to discuss science, debating debunked antivaccine activists, historically speaking, is an awful idea. Having one moderated by a clueless contrarian, and buoyed by a loudmouthed ...

MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, producer of the PBS NewsHour, numerous documentaries and civic engagement projects, is pleased to announce its expansion into e-publishing with the release of “Debating our ...

SHOULD Elizabeth II be the last queen? Should police officers be banned from using guns? And which is better: Pixar or Disney? Pupils at Redden Court School, a state secondary on London’s eastern ...

WHEN THE Chinese government first sent students to America in the late 19th century, it could not decide whether their goal should be to acquire specific technical knowledge or to absorb new ways of ...