Pro Animal testing is cruel and doesn’t work Scientific alternatives to animal testing Animal testing is animal cruelty Toxic and tragic: testing on animals Con Why animal research How you can help end animal testing in cosmetics How the COVID-19 pandemic highlights the necessity of animal research

Pro Internet access is no longer a luxury Internet access should be a basic human right Internet access should be free Five reasons internet access should be free Con Internet access should be fair — not free — to everyone Internet access should be left to the free market Why we have to pay for the internet

U.S. officials are reportedly privately worried Russia stole blueprints for U.S. blackout restoration

Yes No Three things Joe Biden must do to restore American Foreign Policy (2021) A sustainable vision means active engagement with the world while seeking to avoid any large-scale military deployments. Isolationism and off-shore balancing are not appropriate to a world that is more claustrophobic and interconnected than ever before in history. Every place matters now. An incident in Africa can affect U.S.-China relations. The aim must be to engage diplomatically everywhere while getting

Yes $900 billion in caronavirus stimulus won’t save America $2,000 checks are poorly targeted and that’s fine $2,000 checks won’t hurt the economy $2,000 checks could jolt the economy One $2,000 stimulus check won’t cut it There are very real dangers to the US economy of not issuing the $2,000 stimulus checks Is another stimulus check necessary? The data doesn’t lie Return of the phony deficit hawks Don’t Worry About

Background What is facial recognition and how do police use it? Tech companies are still helping police scan your face The growing fight over police use of facial recognition Facial recognition technology under spotlight after third arrest 2020 was a pivotal year for use of facial recognition technology Activists turn tables on police by using facial recognition to identify them Pro Facial recognition discriminates against communities of color Facial recognition

Domestic Is the credibility of the 2020 Presidential election at-risk? Should a COVID-19 vaccine be made mandatory? Should the capital gains tax preference be repealed? Should Tik Tok be banned?  Should the payroll tax be cut? Should School Resource Officers be reduced? Should the police be defunded? Foreign Should the US modernize its nuclear arsenal?  Is China a threat?    

General COVID-19 vaccines could become mandatory. Here’s how it might work. Fauci: Covid-19 Vaccines Unlikely To Be Mandatory Mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations? Here’s what states and employers can legally require Should a COVID-19 vaccine be compulsory — and what would this mean for anti-vaxxers Yes Defeat COVID-19 by requiring vaccination for all. It’s not un-American, it’s patriotic. Is Mandatory Vaccination Legal in Time of Epidemic? States have authority to fine or

Yes Trump floats idea that fraud could lead to re-do of November election ‘Things could get very ugly’: Experts fear post-election crisis as Trump sets the stage to dispute the results in November Trump’s election meddling is threatening democracy The 10 scariest election scenarios, ranked Trump can’t stop the election but he can threaten democracy  Trump may damage American democracy premanently  When elections lead to violence: It’s happened before —

General Trump’s budget calls for major boost to nukes  U.S. Strategic Nuclear Forces: Background, Developments, and Issues Is the Air Force testing an earth penetrating nuclear bomb? The nuclear debate gets even uglier Nuclear force modernization costs much less than you think Nuclear weapon modernization continues but the outlook for arms control is bleak: New SIPRI Yearbook out now Yes Why America Is Modernizing Its Nuclear Weapons Forces China’s small