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- Debate: Occupy movement
- Debate: Herman Cain 9-9-9 tax proposal
- Debate: Chilean social security model
- Debate: The New Deal
- Debate: CLASS Act
- Debate: Massachusetts healthcare law
- Debate: Banning public employee strikes
- Debate: Buy American policies
- Debate: Legal personhood at conception
- Debate: Recognition of Palestinian statehood in the United Nations
- Debate: Law degree vs MPP/MPA for careers in public policy
- Debate: Abolishing the Euro
- Debate: Privatizing social security - Chilean model.
- Debate: Deporting only criminal illegal immigrants
- Debate: Punishing businesses for employing undocumented immigrants
- Debate: State deaf schools
- Debate: Fetal personhood
- Debate: Slut Walks
- Debate: Existence of US Postal Service
- Debate: Keynesian economic policies
- Debate: Ban on short-selling during economic crisis
- Debate: Late-term abortions
- Debate: 40-hour work week
- Debate: America Invents Act
- Debate: Government regulation of executive pay
- Debate: US political system broken
- Debate: Is religion a force for good?
- Debate: Taking bar exam without a legal degree
- Debate: Abortion for physical deformities
- Debate: Should individuals or the state pay for higher education?
- Debate: China political and economic model
- Debate: Mandating condom use in pornography
- Debate: Background checks at gun shows
- Debate: Ban on violent porn
- Debate: Two-year law school
- Debate: Mandatory sex education in public schools
- Debate: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
- Debate: Sales taxes on online purchases
- Debate: Legalization of performance-enhancing drugs in professional sports
- Debate: Is homosexuality a choice?
- Debate: Universal healthcare
- Debate: Government funding for Planned Parenthood
- Debate: Fraternities
- Debate: 20-week abortion limit
- Debate: Foie gras ban
- Debate: Background checks of gun buyers
- Debate: Public funding for broadcasting
- Debate: Pre-selecting sex of children
- Debate: Mandatory labeling of foods with trans fats
- Debate: Mandating helmets for bicyclists
- Debate: Government owned casinos
- Debate: Porn at public libraries
- Debate: Ban on public sex
- Debate: Means testing for benefits
- Debate: Dowries
- Debate: Water should be priced at its market value
- Debate: Armed pilots in airplanes
- Debate: A right to die?
- Debate: Goal-line technology in futbol
- Debate: Swastika ban
- Debate: Legality of coca chewing
- Debate: Pete Rose in Baseball Hall of Fame
- Debate: Line-item veto for US presidents
- Debate: University professor tenure
- Debate: Privatizing Medicare
- Debate: Urban vs rural life
- Debate: Cloud computing
- Debate: Prenuptial agreement
- Debate: IPad
- Debate: Bombing Iranian nuclear facilities
- Debate: GDP economic measure
- Debate: Allowing guns on college campuses
- Debate: Mini-nukes development in the United States
- Debate: Lockers in public schools
- Debate: Drinking bottled water
- Debate: Instant-runoff voting
- Debate: Insanity defense
- Debate: Online dating
- Debate: Speed dating
- Debate: Is a nuclear-armed North Korea unacceptable?
- Debate: Does "sin" exist?
- Debate: Manned spaceflight
- Debate: Shaming convicted criminals
- Debate: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
- Debate: Presidential pardons in the United States
- Debate: Abortion for physical deformities
- Debate: Tax exemption for churches
- Debate: Force feeding prisoners on hunger strike
- Debate: Online gambling
- Debate: Women in combat
- Debate: Mandatory year of national service for youth
- Debate: Paying people to stay healthy
- Debate: Compulsory national service
- Debate: Landmines in the Korean Demilitarized Zone
- Debate: Sex offender registries
- Debate: Christian divorce
- Debate: Pricing water at its market value
- Debate: Sabbath Day
- Debate: Cyprus reunification
- Debate: Use of prison labor for public works
- Debate: Female NFL referees
- Debate: Estate tax in the United States
- Debate: Oil drilling in the Arctic
- Debate: Fair trade
- Debate: Teach for America
- Debate: Trying juveniles as adults
- Debate: Banning protests at funerals
- Debate: Water fluoridation
- Debate: National sovereignty is an inalienable right
- Debate: Ban on communist parties
- Debate: Right to carry guns on college campuses
- Debate: Transparent election funding
- Debate: Pocket knife ban
- Debate: Liberty is more important than equality
- Debate: Is religion a force for good?
- Debate: Anonymous campaign donations
- Debate: Oil drilling in the Arctic
- Debate: Getting a law degree if you do not want to practice law
- Debate: Do I want to be a lawyer?
- Debate: Medicare
- Debate: Requiring DNA evidence for executions
- Debate: F-35 fighter jet
- Debate: No-fault divorce
- Debate: Privatizing airport security
- Debate: Natural gas fracking
- Debate: Online university degrees
- Debate: Appropriateness of atheism ads
- Debate: Public funding of presidential campaigns
- Debate: Clean diesel
- Debate: Oil drilling ban in Antarctica
- Debate: Quran book burning ban
- Debate: Carbon offsets
- Debate: Renewable energy on public lands
- Debate: In some cases juveniles should be tried as adults
- Debate: Is anonymity included in free speech rights?
- Debate: Banning open carrying of guns in private businesses
- Debate: Charging for news content
- Debate: Closing US military base in Okinawa
- Debate: US national day of prayer
- Debate: Inheritance tax
- Debate: National biometric ID cards
- Debate: Landmines in the Korean Demilitarized Zone
- Debate: Voter identification cards
- Debate: European social democracy
- Debate: Washington, DC voting rights
- Debate: Decriminalizing marijuana possession
- Debate: Pre-selecting sex of children
- Debate: Life without parole vs. death penalty
- Debate: Are homosexuals born gay?
- Debate: Prohibition of flag burning
- Debate: Graduated tax rates
- Debate: Electronic tagging of pedophiles
- Debate: No-fault divorce
- Debate: Buying purebred dogs
- Debate: Humanity is progressing toward greater freedom
- Debate: Fine for illegal immigrants in path to citizenship
- Debate: Ban on public nudity
- Debate: Decriminalizing marijuana possession
- Debate: Partial-birth abortion
- Debate: Ex-felon right to vote
- Debate: Is psychology a science
- Debate: Mandatory counseling of women seeking abortions
- Debate: Palestinian state
- Debate: Ban on Islamist political parties
- Debate: Outing of gay public figures
- Debate: Compulsory vaccination
- Debate: Ten commandments in public buildings
- Debate: Popular election of US presidents
- Debate: Banning the confederate flag
- Debate: English as the official language of the EU
- Debate: Naming and shaming of sex offenders
- Debate: ID checks for gun sales
- Debate: Background checks of gun buyers
- Debate: Do offspring have a right to know their biological parents?
- Debate: Is Islam compatible with democracy?
- Debate: Patenting of genetically modified seeds
- Debate: Compulsory voting
- Debate: Kashmir self determination
- Debate: Banning hands-free cell phones in cars
- Debate: Military draft
- Debate: Maximum weekly working hours
- Debate: EU federalism
- Debate: Detention on the grounds of mental illness
- Debate: Estate tax in the United States
- Debate: Should suicide be illegal?
- Debate: Two-party system
- Debate: Ban on public sex
- Debate: Minority schools
- Debate: Carrying a handgun at home
- Debate: Phasing out fossil fuel subsidies
- Debate: Ban on employee weight discrimination
- Debate: Desegregation school busing
- Debate: Federal anti-SLAPP law
- Debate: Remote-control warfare
- Debate: Deporting illegal immigrants in the US
- Debate: Ban on girls wearing full veils in state schools
- Debate: Ban on niqab on public transportation
- Debate: Ban on driving with full Muslim veil
- Debate: Right to health care
- Debate: Is file sharing fair use?
- Debate: Unlimited personal spending in elections
- Debate: Biometric national ID cards to prevent employment of illegal immigrants
- Debate: Metered Internet billing
- Debate: Vocational training
- Debate: Military tribunals for suspected terrorists
- Debate: Conscientious objections of pharmacists to emergency contraception
- Debate: Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage
- Debate: Guest workers in the United States
- Debate: Underground nuclear waste storage
- Debate: Coca crop eradication
- Debate: Smoking ban on public patios
- Debate: Anti-depressants
- Debate: Policy of containment toward a nuclear Iran
- Debate: Can a nuclear Iran be deterred?
- Debate: Climate change mitigation vs adaptation
- Debate: Timetable withdrawal from Afghanistan
- Debate: Nude beaches
- Debate: Dividing Jerusalem
- Debate: Tax incentives for marriage
- Debate: Single-sex schools
- Debate: China "one child" policy
- Debate: Single-payer universal health care
- Debate: Line-item veto
- Debate: Harm reduction drug policy
- Debate: Public funding for gay pride parades
- Debate: Moving Guantanamo detainees to America
- Debate: Cochlear implants for deaf infants
- Debate: Pill testing at night clubs
- Debate: Gestational surrogacy
- Debate: Does "God" really exist?
- Debate: Abortion for physical deformities
- Debate: Should marriage be defined as only between a man and a woman?
- Debate: Cartoon child porn
- Debate: Government subsidies of journalism
- Debate: Sudden-death overtime in NFL
- Debate: Developed world climate change debt to developing world
- Debate: Genetic screening
- Debate: Images of death in the media
- Debate: Atheism advertisements
- Debate: Death penalty exemption for mentally ill
- Debate: Palestinian right of return
- Debate: Terrorist suspect right to habeas corpus
- Debate: Human life as beginning at conception
- Debate: Value added tax (VAT)
- Debate: Death penalty for juveniles
- Debate: Electronic medical records
- Debate: Communism
- Debate: Socialism
- Debate: Credit cards for minors
- Debate: Death penalty for child rape
- Debate: Was the War in Iraq worth it?
- Debate: Emissions exemptions for China and India
- Debate: US ban on travel to Cuba
- Debate: Church involvement in politics
- Debate: Freeze on new Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories
- Debate: Terrorist suspect right to habeas corpus
- Debate: Is Scientology a religion?
- Debate: Judicial empathy
- Debate: Was the IRA justified?
- Debate: Junk food advertising ban
- Debate: Ticket scalping
- Debate: Corporate sponsorship of schools
- Debate: Should voters be required to show photo identification?
- Debate: DNA database of criminals
- Debate: Secular state
- Debate: Bush v. Gore
- Debate: Federal funding for embryonic stem cell research
- Debate: US nuclear weapons in Europe
- Debate: US arms sales to Taiwan
- Debate: Ban on mosque minaretes in Switzerland
- Debate: US sale of F-16 fighter jets to Taiwan
- Debate: Mandatory drug tests of welfare recipients
- Debate: Legal recognition of sex changes
- Debate: Ban on cage fighting
- Debate: Does Israel have a right to exist?
- Debate: Should harming animals in laboratory tests be banned?
- Debate: Term limits for Supreme Court justices
- Debate: Lifetime appointment of supreme court justices
- Debate: Should parents put GPS implants in their children?
- Debate: One-party rule
- Debate: Jury nullification in the United States
- Debate: Civil unions vs. gay marriage
- Debate: Ivory trading
- Debate: "Too big to fail"
- Debate: Should churches be tax exempt?
- Debate: Do fathers have a right to be informed of an abortion?
- Debate: Compassionate clemency
- Debate: Racial quotas
- Debate: Male reproductive rights
- Debate: Male rights to opt-out of child support in unwanted pregnancies
- Debate: Abkhazia independence
- Debate: Premarital sex
- Debate: Chinese non-interventionism
- Debate: Nativity scenes on public property
- Debate: National lotteries
- Debate: Pornography
- Debate: Bikini baristas
- Debate: Should the Bible be used for swearing-in ceremonies and in courtrooms?
- Debate: Minimum weight requirements for models
- Debate: Forbidding communion to individuals over political beliefs
- Debate: Death penalty for child rape
- Debate: Expansion of the UN Security Council
- Debate: Should the voting age be reduced from 18 to 16?
- Debate: Living constitution
- Debate: Negotiating with terrorist groups
- Debate: Race-based political parties
- Debate: Should the Church deny communion to individuals holding opposing views?
- Debate: Single-party state
- Debate: Intelligent design
- Debate: Preventive war
- Debate: Privatizing national security
- Debate: Privatizing prisons
- Debate: Roma nation
- Debate: Muhammad cartoons controversy
- Debate: Gallons per mile instead of miles per gallon
Second tier debates
- Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase alternative energy incentives in the United States
- Debate: Tanning tax
- Debate: Judicial review of clemency powers
- Debate: Equal opportunity
- Debate: Paper books vs electronic books
- Debate: Recall elections
- Debate: Women in combat
- Debate: Caps on public university tuition fees
- Debate: Should banks be forbidden from owning investment companies?
- Debate: Electric vehicle mandates
- Debate: Is the profit-interest compatible with health care?
- Debate: European Union constitution
- Debate: Low-carb diets
- Debate: Homosexuality - could be a great page but needs a bit of editing.
- Debate: THBT hate speech should be a crime - really needs to be put in a shape
- Debate: Online gambling
- Debate: European missile defense
- Debate: Space-based solar power
- Debate: SATS - really needs some changes and developing
- Debate: Campaign Finance Reform
- Debate: Cap-and-trade versus carbon tax
- Debate: NAFTA
- Debate: Ban on spanking children
- Debate: School uniform
- Debate: Should primates be used to develop vaccines?
- Debate: Non-interventionism
- Debate: Paying disadvantaged students to learn
- Debate: Parental right to see student grades
- Debate: Should Bush administration officials be prosecuted for "torturing"?
- Debate: Release of US interrogation memos
- Debate: Mandatory drug testing for public officials
- Debate: Should the US use crosses to memorialize war heroes?
- Debate: Should the US Army field manuel be used for all interrogations?
- Debate: Should governments cancel student debt during economic crisis?
- Debate: Extraordinary rendition
- Debate: Lobbying
- Debate: Globalization
- Debate: Should Israel return the Golan Heights to Syria?
- Debate: Mine Ban Treaty (Ottawa Treaty)
- Debate: Forced heirship
- Debate: US ratification of the Law of the Sea
- Debate: National Missile Defense
- Debate: Child beauty pageants
- Debate: Covenant marriage
- Debate: Should US expand nuclear umbrella to Middle East allies?
- Debate: Appointment of US senators by governors
- Debate: $700 billion US economic bailout
- Debate: Are some companies too big to fail?
- Debate: Military draft in the United States
- Debate: Organic food
- Debate: Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
- Debate: Gambling
- Debate: Extraordinary rendition
- Debate: Equal pay for women
- Debate: Wearing animal furs and skins
- Debate: Self-determination
- Debate: Cellulosic ethanol
- Debate: Russian membership in the WTO
- Debate: Sanctions
- Debate: Regifting
- Debate: Protectionism
- Debate: NATO membership for Israel
- Debate: Union of the Mediterranean
- Debate: Minimum wage in the United States
- Debate: Lifetime ban of athletes using drugs in sports
- Debate: Should public universities be free to attend?
- Debate: The Euro in the United Kingdom
- Debate: Global tax
- Debate: Legalization of sado-masochism
- Debate: Official visits to Yasukuni shrine in Japan
- Debate: Value of the United Nations
- Debate: Unicameral legislatures
- Debate: Tax on currency trading across borders (Tobin Tax)
- Debate: Surrogate mothers
- Debate: Should the rich pay more taxes to reduce inequality?
- Debate: Two-term limits on US presidents
Third tier debate articles for Debate Digest
- Debate: Pork spending
- Debate: Allowing Lehman Brothers to fail
- Debate: Designer babies
- Debate: Israeli invasion of Gaza
- Debate: Return to the Gold Standard
- Debate: Identity Cards
- Debate: International asbestos ban
- Debate: Sharia law in state law
- Debate: Coal-to-liquids (CTL) technology
- Debate: Compressed air vehicles
- Debate: European Common Agricultural Policy
- Debate: GNU/Linux naming controversy
- Debate: Quebec independence
- Debate: Coalition government
- Debate: Hydrokinetic power
- Debate: Iran crisis "grand bargain"
- Debate: Natural gas
- Debate: Liquified natural gas (LNG)
- Debate: Plug-in hybrids
- Debate: Socialist Europe
- Debate: Three strikes law
- Debate: UN responsibility to protect civilians
- Debate: Universal Jurisdiction
- Debate: Waterboarding
- Debate: Is the US a "Christian nation"?
- Debate: Conservative vs. liberal
- Debate: “Right to work” laws
- Debate: Do guns make us safer?
- Debate: Ban on sodomy
- Debate: Trade vs aid
- Debate: Outsourcing
- Debate: Taiwan independence
- Debate: Ten commandments in public buildings
- Debate: Should the UN value human rights over sovereignty?
Miscellaneous projects
- Work on Multilingual Debate Glossary.
- Recategorize all debates and establish and hierarchy of categories, linked-to on the main page.
- Create a space between "Debate:" and the title of an article.
- Move background sections in debate articles to above the table of contents.
- Debate: Arranged marriage, arguments need separation and structuring.
- Debate: Partial-birth abortion, needs substantial work.
- Debate: Contraception prescriptions for under-aged girls
- Debate: Minority schools
- Debate: Armenian "genocide"
- Debate: Gun control, get substantial traffic, and needs a lot of work.