Watch the Foreign Policy Presidential Debate with The Nation!
  • October 19, 2012

Watch the Foreign Policy Presidential Debate with The Nation!

Watch the Foreign Policy Presidential Debate with The Nation!

This Monday, October 22, at 9 pm join Nation writers and readers for live fact-checking and analysis during the foreign policy presidential debate.

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During the foreign policy debate this Monday, October 22, at 9 pm, we’ll be online again to cut through the spin. While Barack Obama and Mitt Romney debate one last time, join our live chat at TheNation.com for real-time fact-checking and analysis from Nation writers and readers. You will have the opportunity to chat live with our editor and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel, Nation contributors Robert Dreyfuss, Ari Berman and Laura Flanders, TheNation.com blogger and director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies Phyllis Bennis, and the national security policy analyst at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, Matthew Duss. For the last debate, more than 800 of you joined us, many submitting your own sharp commentary. To be sure you don’t miss out this time, sign up for an e-mail reminder below.
 

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