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 ...

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, ...

ARGUMENT In October 2018, 160 migrants set out from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on a journey north in hopes of eventually entering the United States via the US-Mexico Southern border. ...

In 2007, Hamas, a Sunni-Islamist fundamentalist group took control of the Gaza Strip in the Battle of Gaza. Since then, Israel and Egypt have implemented an ongoing land, air, and ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

ARGUMENT On February 22, 2015, a longstanding Shiite insurrectionist group known as the Houthis overthrew the Yemeni government[1]. Following a brief attempted restoration of government authority in February, the Houthis ...

In June 2016 the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union in a referendum called by then PM David Cameron. Since then, the UK has gone through a general ...

In 2007, Hamas, a Sunni-Islamist fundamentalist group took control of the Gaza Strip in the Battle of Gaza. Since then, Israel and Egypt have implemented an ongoing land, air, and ...