Debate site at Hofstra University

OK folks. No doubt the candidates are ready to rumble — and should be soon — on stage at Hoftra University in Hempstead, Long Island.

Bob Schieffer is moderating, and I’ll bet he’ll be tough on transgressors of…

Live blogging bird

Join the editorial page staff tonight at 8 p.m. for a live blog of the third and final presidential debate between John McCain and Barack Obama from New York’s Hofstra University in Hempstead, Long Island.

We are grateful to Platformista…

Former New Yorker editor and all-around well-connected media maven Tina Brown has a new web magazine, The Daily Beast (a title borrowed from Evelyn Waugh’s “Scoop,” a classic send-up of the British press).  On her own blog today, Ms. Brown, an…

Join the editorial page staff tonight, right here, as we — and all interested readers — live blog the second debate between presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama.

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The Platform, your online Presidential Debate Party Headquarters, cordially invites you to the first of (maybe) four online debate parties. It’s Friday evening at 8 o’clock central, right here at Platform World Headquarters.

Unlike most parties, you don’t actually have to get…