The first presidential debate: A viewer's guide

2012 PRESIDENTIAL RACE The first presidential debate: A viewer's guide Wednesday night's showdown between President Obama and Mitt Romney may be the biggest night of the campaign. A rundown of what you need to know 2012 PRESIDENTIAL RACE 8 memorable moments from Obama and Romney's past debates From "You're likable enough, Hillary" to "I'm running for office, for Pete's sake." A trip down memory lane... THE APPLE UNIVERSE Listen to the 1983 Steve Jobs speech that predicted the iPad Addressing a small audience nearly 30 years ago, the late Apple boss revealed nascent thoughts on tablets, the App Store, and even Siri MISSOURI SENATE RACE Flashback: Todd Akin says in '08 that doctors give abortions to women who aren't pregnant A video surfaces in which Missouri's GOP challenger to Sen. Claire McCaskill says that abortion doctors break all kinds of laws with their "culture of death" MYSTERIES OF SPACE The space boat that could explore Saturn's moon Forget NASA's Curiosity. Now engineers are dreaming of a floating rover that would cruise around Titan — on land and sea THE COMPASS WITH MARC AMBINDER Marc Ambinder: Debate decisions made by a coin flip Rarely is anything fair in politics. But debates are a different story FROM OUR PARTNERS AT SLATE How campaigning for president became socially acceptable: A visual history In the early days of the presidency, no man worthy of the office would have dared campaign for it SEE ALL CARTOONS TECCA Robots will soon be making their own decisions thanks to bee brains SLATE How the Mormon Church got rich and why it may not stay that way NEW YORK MAGAZINE Debate zingers that time forgot NEWSER Kony 2012 guy on nude rant: 'That's not who I am' SALON College graduates are in for a rude awakening Weird news photo quiz "Sewn-up" lips. Mooning babies. For each of these five curious images, see if you can choose the answer that correctly completes the photo caption         Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences | privacy policy  Copyright © 2012 The Week, All rights reserved.