Debate exists to test ideas, challenge assumptions, and force participants to defend their positions under scrutiny. What I didn’t expect was for factually questionable, ideologically charged ...

In his junior year of high school, Zion J. Dixon ’26 won the Tournament of Champions, widely considered to be the most prestigious competition in high school debate. By his junior year at Harvard, he ...

BAUDL staff member Mya Whitaker and program alumna and debate all-star Ne’Jahra Soriano joined host Rachael Maurer to chat about the Bay Area Urban Debate League and the impact they are having on ...

Bettina Gannon, an Oxbridge Academy student, is ranked sixth in Florida and 16th nationwide in Congressional Debate. Gannon recently placed fifth at the Nova Titan Invitational in Davie. She plans to ...

Going into his senior year at Roosevelt High School, Everett Murray wanted his last high school debate season to be a competitive one. Achieving that would be no easy feat. Roosevelt, a Title I school ...

A transformational gift from University of Wyoming alumnus Greg Dyekman will support the university’s nationally competitive speech and debate program -- a program that has fostered leadership and ...

SO DO YOU THINK YOU’RE EVER TOO OLD TO DEBATE IF YOU DID AFTER YOU SEE THIS NEXT STORY, YOU WON’T ANYMORE. WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HOSTED THE FIRST COMPETITIVE DEBATE BETWEEN TWO RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES ...