• Debate week worries

    What Table Talkers are saying about fighting fair, community and how the media let them down.
  • Faith vs. reason

    Kerry gains the upper hand in a debate as significant for its substance as for what it revealed about Bush.
  • Fact-checking Bush

    Since the media has failed to call the president on his lies and flip-flops, Kerry must do the job in the debate.
  • We the moderators

    "Mr. President, are you most proud of squandering the budget surplus or overseeing massive job loss?" Salon readers pose their debate questions to Bush and Kerry
  • The smile vs. the scowl

    The Edwards-Cheney debate will offer one of the starkest contrasts since Clay fought Liston.
  • Democrats play nice

    The candidates gather at a major debate and, with the exception of a jilted Joe Lieberman, go easy on Dean.
  • Letters

    Readers respond to "The Clinton Wars," by Sidney Blumenthal, and "Democrats Square Off," by Jake Tapper.
  • The great debate

    As President Bush all but declared war on Iraq, journalists Christopher Hitchens and Mark Danner thrashed out the big issues that the country should have months ago.
  • Says you

    Readers have much to say about "One Hundred Girls for Every Boy," by Theresa Rusho.
  • One last debate

    Salon's young readers make Bush and Gore answer questions that Jim Lehrer neglected to ask.
  • Why have a youth debate?

    Because with both candidates hammering Social Security and Medicare, young voters need some extra political motivation.
  • Gore shoots blanks on guns

    In trying not to alienate swing voters, the vice president is missing a chance to show us what he really thinks -- and what Bush has really done -- about gun control.
  • Body language

    Whether talking in bed or in a debate, the sentenceless speaker might be the turn-on.
  • Who won the final presidential debate?

    "Gored" by Jake Tapper; "A comeback for Gore?" compiled by Salon Staff
  • "Upbeat" Bush readies for Letterman

    His staff, meanwhile, comes up with the Top Ten reasons to avoid talking about the debate.
  • Foiled again

    Ralph Nader is turned away from yet another presidential debate, but he's hoping for a post-debate bounce nonetheless.
  • Gored

    The two candidates share a podium -- but the vice president knocks Bush off center stage.
  • A comeback for Gore?

    Roger Ebert, Joe Eszterhas, Andrew Sullivan and others dissect the final debate of the campaign.
  • Gore: Ready to rumble?

    In an exclusive interview with Salon, the vice president promises a "very hot and heavy" final campaign stretch.
  • Say what?

    Five Bush debate statements bear closer inspection.
  • Paging Mr. Gore

    George W. Bush smirks and fibs his way to what looks like a victory over an opponent so shackled it looks like he's second-guessing his every move.
  • Big night for Bush

    Christopher Buckley, Norman Lear, Al Franken, Joe Eszterhas and other critics review Debate 2.
  • Throwing curveballs at the swing states

    On the eve of debate No. 2, Bush offers "Big Relief" while Gore peddles tax credits.
  • Good politics, bad journalism

    Reporters seized on stories about Al Gore the liar without checking their facts. Now the Bush campaign is cashing in.
  • Playing the "dum-dum" card

    Tired of having their man labeled a liar, the Gore campaign asks why Bush can't "string together a coherent sentence."
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