(The Root) — When it was recently announced that there would be female moderators at a presidential debate for the first time in two decades, many women cheered. But that cheering was short-lived ...

There’s already a disagreement about what role moderators should play at presidential debates. Now, there’s a dispute about whether a moderator with an Hispanic background should have been picked. The ...

Listeners and bloggers give their take on Michel Martin's commentary this week on the all-white, all-male lineup of presidential debate moderators. Also, the program shares new information about ...

The verdict is in on Thursday’s vice presidential debate: Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his Republican challenger, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., both advanced their candidacies, and moderator ...

President Donald Trump went on a tirade against debate moderators for daring to ask him questions in the 2016 Republican primary debates. Transportation secretary says he will pull $160M from ...

NEW YORK Traffic cop or truth detector? The rough reception given Matt Lauer for his back-to-back interviews with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump laid bare a disagreement over whether journalists who ...

Sorry, journalists. If Newt Gingrich wins the nomination (which of course he will — believe!) he says he does not want journalists as debate moderators, because ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Jim Lehrer says keep the presidential debates coming, just don't ask him to moderate any more. The veteran PBS anchor, now in semi-retirement at 77, says he's through after moderating ...

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