About Last Night

Once the Presidential Debate is over, what do we make of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's remarks? How does Sunday's debate affect our understanding of the candidates, their positions, and this election cycle? Let's talk About Last Night.

Join Jim Newell, a political correspondent at Slate, and Tim Shenk, a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Washington University, as they discuss the second Presidential Debate, the state of political journalism, and what it’s like to cover politics during one of the most bizarre years in political history.

Submit Your Questions to Tim and Jim prior to the event at: http://tinyurl.com/AboutLastNightSlateDebate

Presented by the AMCS Department and the Harvey Undergraduate Scholars.

Tim Shenk is a Mellon postdoctoral fellow at WashU and a Carnegie Fellow at the New America Foundation. He did his graduate work at Cambridge and Columbia, where he received his PhD last spring. His first book, a biography of the communist intellectual Maurice Dobb, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2013; his next, an intellectual history of the economy, is under contract with Princeton. His writing has appeared in the Nation, the Guardian, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Jacobin, and Dissent, where he is also book review editor.

Jim Newell is a staff writer at Slate covering politics. He previously served as a writer and editor at Salon, The Guardian, Gawker and Wonkette, and has contributed to The New Republic, The American Prospect, The Daily Beast, The Baffler, and elsewhere. He is a graduateof the University of Pennsylvania.