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From Debatepedia

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Useful debate websites and organizations

• Intelligence Squared, on NPR site.
• New York Times Room for Debate
• Debatewise
• Opposing Views
• ProCon.org
• One Minute Cases
• Create Debate
• Convince Me
• Debategraph
• Argumentum
• Debates.juggle.com
• America's Debate

Debate/talk shows (US)

• Meet the Press
• Fox News Sunday
• Face the Nation
• This Week
• Politalk Blog

Publications in the public debate

Mostly neutral:

• Real Clear Politics
• USA Today Opinion page
• The Week
• Pundit Politics

Left-leaning:

• New York Times Opinion page
• New York Times Blogging Heads
• Washington Post Opinion page
• The American Prospect
• The New Republic
• The Center for American Progress
• The Campaign for America's Future

Right leaning:

• National Review Online
• Wall Street Journal Opinion Journal
• Forbes Opinion
• Houston Chronicle
• Denver Post opinion
• Human Events

Think-tanks

• Heritage Foundation
• CATO Institute
• Family Research Council

Key figures in the public debate

Left-leaning

• Paul Krugman
• Thomas Friedman
• Ezra Klein
• E.J. Dionne

Right-leaning

• David Brooks
• Greg Mankiw
• Michelle Malkin
• Grover Norquist

More moderate

• Thomas Mann

General, useful links on politics

• Timeline of Presidency of Barack Obama

Other useful publications

• Scientific American

See also

• Link exchanges - a list of good sites and organizations that have linked to Debatepedia.org
• Jyte http://jyte.com/ is a place focused on the pro and con of various claims; usually less serious and sometimes much funnier than typical Debatepedia debates.
• Quite a few other wiki where debate is a main topic.