Claremont Radius

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 ...

Much like in 2016, Democratic voters are being presented with a choice between a traditional liberal and a democratic socialist. Voters chose the status quo last cycle, but should the ...

President Trump has faced controversy since the day his campaign began. From racism and misogyny to chaos and treason, the Trump administration has weathered every storm. However, with the incidents ...

ARGUMENT Even after losing eight candidates, the Democratic primary still features a staggering 19 individuals to choose from. Indeed, the Democratic National Committee has been criticized for allowing the number ...

The United States is undergoing cultural upheaval, yet within the traditional public school system, longstanding inequities remain. Some parents have sought out charter schools as an alternative in order to ...

ARGUMENT In 2017, the infamously dire California housing shortage reached 2.3 million units, and the rate of building has declined further since then [1]. In response to this immense problem, ...

One of the hot-button issues of the Democratic Primary is Elizabeth Warren's proposal for a wealth tax levied on the rich. Proponents of the plan argue that it would levy ...

Due to Elon Musk's erratic behavior and Tesla's declining stock price in recent months, Tesla's future has been a topic that many investors have passionately argued about. In this article, ...

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. ...

ARGUMENT While the post 1970’s era brought many new reforms and inventions that drastically increased living standards across the world, many of its market-based solutions, particularly those which involved core ...

Technology companies and their products are a hegemonic presence in American life. Many of the most important innovations of the 21st century have been technological. However, this progress begot many ...

With a number of moral, legal, and even financial nuances, the death penalty has long been controversial. In this argument, Maya Shah and Rowan McGarry-Williams debate whether or not the ...

Since the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, fake news and social media have been at the forefront of discussions about news curation. Social media websites have taken different approaches to tackling ...

Should assisted suicide be considered a fundamental right? Are there too many possible dangers in fully legalizing this practice? Kai O'Neill and Max Fisher debate the merits and cons of ...

ARGUMENT When a mysterious new respiratory disease emerged in Wuhan, China this past December, the international community found the news worrying, but did not immediately seem overly concerned. Americans were ...

President Trump shocked the world earlier this year when he assassinated one of Iran's top military officials. Was this action a benefit or a detriment to American interests in the ...

ARGUMENT To an uninitiated onlooker, Israel seems like it’s on the verge of political catastrophe. Unable to form a coalition, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing multiple existential threats to ...

ARGUMENT Central Asia, defined as the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan, became a stronghold for authoritarianism and dictatorship following the fall of the USSR in ...

With the European Union elections scheduled for the end of May, immigration policy is a contentious issue. The continent is divided between restrictionists and those advocating for relaxed immigration policies, ...