On October 9, Brookings Nonresident Senior Fellow Robert Litan was joined by Darrell West, vice president and director of Governance Studies at Brookings, and Norman Ornstein, AEI resident scholar, to explore how the principles of competitive debate can improve students’ lifelong work skills while making them more informed and demanding voters, and whether an engaged electorate will in turn change the way political candidates campaign for the better, improving–and maybe even saving–our democracy.

https://www.brookings.edu/events/can-teaching-students-real-debate-reduce-political-polarization/

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