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ARGUMENT (Declared Bias: Right Authoritarian, Strong Foreign Policy) Through the last century, the U.S. has gone from being one of a number of Great Powers to being one of two ...

The first trade unions were formed in Britain in the late 18th century. Created in response to the inhumane living standards and wages that followed the Industrial Revolution, unions serve ...

Affirmative action in college admissions has a long history of being a controversial issue in American politics and is perhaps the most debated educational reform policy. It has both been ...

ARGUMENT The West, and the United States in particular, still seems to think that the best way to produce peace is by killing people. At least, that is what its ...

Out of the 196 countries in the world, the United States is one of four that doesn’t have a federally mandated parental leave. Usually we equate parental leave with just ...

Remember when you were a kid and occasionally someone would bring the teacher an apple? Me neither, but you’ve definitely heard of it happening before. The apple has become a ...

ARGUMENT (Declared Bias: Liberal Democrat) Among all pressing issues raised in the campaign for the 2016 election, free trade is among the most vital yet wonkish of issues. The neoliberal ...

FOR For the past several election cycles, and particularly since the Great Recession of 2008, politicians have frequently lamented the decline of the American middle class, and have promised through ...

There have risen two prominent approaches to addressing the adverse effects of carbon dioxide and other pollutants. One is to simply tax carbon emissions — hence the term carbon tax. ...

Since the creation of the Social Security system in 1935, benefits have been paid through a succession of changes in the law to benefit certain non-working Americans. The system provides ...

As recently vocalized by Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign, free public college has never been a radical idea. In 1785, the second U.S. President John Adams had explicitly declared that people ...

Affirmative action has long been a controversial issue. Recently, the issue has been brought up within one of the world's most hallowed institutions (Harvard). Raizel Yu will be arguing that ...

Policies such as cigarette taxes are guided by a simple logic: take something that’s unhealthy, make it more expensive, and fewer people are likely to purchase it. This same logic ...

Radius Roundtable is a new series of interviews that attempts to facilitate fruitful discussions among people with contrasting opinions on various topics that affect the 5Cs. By choosing two people ...

Exporting democracy has long been a controversial issue. In this article, [name redacted] and Max will be arguing about the importance of American democracy and the necessity of spreading America's ...

ARGUMENT (Declared Bias: Classical Liberal) In late July, Facebook lost about $120 billion in market capital due to missed expectations on revenue and slowing user growth rates. To make matters ...

The idea for a Kurdish state has divided US policymakers since the Gulf War. An ethnically independent people, Kurds are persecuted in Iraq, Iran, and Turkey to varying degrees. Consequently, ...

Since the turn of the century, Germany has spent more time under Grand Coalitions than without them. The comprise CDU/CSU and the Social Democrat Party, historically two of Germany's largest ...

The US has a history of granting foreign aid to nations across the world, a legacy that stretches back over 100 years. Under the Trump administration, the US' role in ...

ARGUMENT The West, and the United States in particular, still seems to think that the best way to produce peace is by killing people. At least, that is what its ...

Catalonia is a region in the Iberian Peninsula centered around the city of Barcelona. During the 1930s, the Spanish Republic was defeated, and Catalonia lost much of its autonomy. In ...