BEST. DEBATE. EVER. This is the best Democratic debate so far. The questions are sharp, funny, thoughtful, and focused on issues that too infrequently get an airing. And, best of all, the debate, now half-over, has focused on domestic issues for a change. They should do this format more often.

–Garance Franke-Ruta

Garance Franke-Ruta is a former senior editor at the Prospect. Her work has also appeared in The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. She was a 2006 recipient of a fellowship at the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University.