The Dallas Morning News To have and have not: Cruz in, Perry out of prime-time debate The prime-time debate highlights a number of GOP rivalries. Huckabee and Cruz are vying for the affections of Christian conservatives. Cruz, Rubio and Paul are wrestling for tea party support. Bush and Walker hope to consolidate the party’s establishment. “A little bit of this is survival of the fittest — which of the social conservatives […]
New York Post Consolation debates gives lesser GOP candidates spotlight On a recent Friday, 1.7 million people were tuned to Fox News at 5 p.m., the time of the lower-tier event. “You can look at being relegated to the 5 p.m. debate as a form of punishment, but it’s also kind of liberating because there’s fewer people on stage so you are not fighting for […]
Fox News Debate coach: Here’s how the GOP contenders should deal with Trump How can the nine other Republican candidates at tomorrow’s debate take on Donald Trump? Debate coach and Northeastern University professor Alan Schroeder offered suggestions for debating the GOP front-runner at tomorrow’s Fox News-Facebook Debate, which will kick off at 8:50p ET.
Your candidate made the debate? Congrats. He might be on TV for five minutes Two hours. Ten candidates. Three moderators. Simple math says not every — and perhaps no — candidate in Thursday’s prime-time, top-tier presidential debate is going to get as much time as he would like to make his case to voters. Some of the 10 candidates’ speaking times may be so minuscule that it’ll be as if […]
Forbes Getting ready for tomorrow’s Republican debate Any televised political debate resonates backs to the first ever such match in 1960 when underdog John F. Kennedy outshone Richard M. Nixon at the podium and rode the momentum on to victory in the election. Politicians, media experts, and academicians have pored over the dynamics of that event, analyzing every detail from JFK’s patrician […]
Defense One How to avoid an all-out war in cyberspace Restraint is the strategic underpinning of how many states confront cyber actions. Despite calls for a response to cyber aggression, the U.S. government still has not decided on a viable reaction given limited options. As David Sanger recounts in the New York Times, “in a series of classified meetings, officials have struggled to choose among […]
Chicago Tribune Lyme disease still stuck in controversy, but there is hope The current Lyme treatment is a round of common antibiotics. For chronic Lyme disease, doctors prescribe long-term doses. Studies by Kim Lewis, at Northeastern University in Boston, show that some Borrelia form persister (dormant) cells that evade antibiotics, so the best way to attack them is pulsing (on and off) instead of continuous use of […]
The Christian Science Monitor Six phrases to watch for in Thursday’s GOP debate This pivot happens so often in debates that there’s a name for it: the “clubhouse turn.” Northeastern University journalism professor Alan Schroeder, author of several books on presidential debates, traces the phrase’s origin to Michael Sheehan, a debate coach for Bill Clinton and other Democrats. “ ‘Clubhouse turn’ strikes me as a particularly appropriate metaphor […]
Boston Magazine Study finds schools statewide are selling healthier snack options In 2012, Massachusetts passed a new set of school nutrition standards mandating which foods should be sold in public middle and high schools statewide. With no financial incentives and little technical assistance from the state, schools were asked to implement those guidelines within their own facilities—and most actually did. Those are the results of a […]
Can Fox News exclude candidates just because they aren’t mentioned in polls? Alan Schroeder is a professor of journalism at Northeastern University who has written extensively about presidential debates. “This comes up every single cycle,” he said when we spoke by phone on Monday morning. “More generally in the general election debates.” Candidates who don’t make the cut try to figure out how to finagle their way […]
Preserve Widett Circle’s industrial legacy One option is to reimagine Widett Circle as a dense 21st century loft manufacturing district. Currently, Widett Circle plays an important role as one of just a few center-city industrial-districts that keep Boston running. Other districts include the Boston Marine Industrial Park, Newmarket, Readville, Charlestown’s Mystic River waterfront, and similar areas in Chelsea and Somerville. […]
What emotions are (and aren’t) Most people, including many scientists, believe that emotions are distinct, locatable entities inside us — but they’re not. Searching for emotions in this form is as misguided as looking for cerebral clarinets and oboes. Of course, we experience anger, happiness, surprise and other emotions as clear and identifiable states of being. This seems to imply […]