This unprecedented year has inspired great innovation. But the idea of hosting a virtual debate isn't one of them. Bringing people together remotely and televising it is not anything new, including in ...

Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican Richard Nixon faced off before a national TV audience in the first-ever debate between presidential nominees. Many folks who listened to the debate on the radio ...

On the night of September 26, 1960, America sat before its televisions in anticipation of something entirely new. It was the first televised presidential debate in U.S. history, and the ...

I am preparing a lecture on the US elections that I will be giving the week after next at the Center for US Research Center at Tsinghua. One of the points I wanted to make is that US-China relations ...

In newly released papers from his presidency, Richard M. Nixon is shown preoccupying himself with the finest details of dividing friend and foe: directing a purge of Kennedy-era modern art, which he ...