The Commission on Presidential Debates has set up a format this year that figures to actually make the discussion on the debate stage more serious and detailed

Cal Thomas says the tired “debate” format devised in 1960 for the televised Nixon-Kennedy meeting and made worse in the 1970s needs serious updating

For the first time since 1980, the Republican challenger has an opening to knock the president down to size during the upcoming Presidential Debates

The announcement of this fall’s debate moderators exposed the gulf between a new media environment moving at hyperspeed and the secretive Commission on Presidential Debates, which is steeped in the traditions of political stagecraft from prior decades

Chris Van Hollen says that he’s comfortable playing the Republican vice presidential candidate in the Democratic ticket’s debate preparations because he knows how Paul Ryan presents his case

Representative Chris Van Hollen of Maryland has emerged as the choice to play Representative Paul Ryan in mock debates with Vice President Joe Biden

Former Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm says Vice President Joe Biden may have an easier time preparing to debate Paul Ryan

The Commission on Presidential Debates is denying Univision's request to host a 'forum' with the presidential candidates that would address Latino issues

PBS's Jim Lehrer will host the first presidential debate on October 3 in Denver, Colo, CNN's Candy Crowley will host the second, town-hall debate on October 16 in Hempstead, N.Y., CBS's Bob Schieffer will host the third debate on October 22 in Boca Raton, Fla., and ABC's Martha Raddatz will host the vice presidential debate on October 11 in Danville, Ky.

Former ABC News anchor Carole Simpson, the first and last woman to moderate a presidential debate, is asking women to demand that at least one of this year's presidential debates be moderated by a woman