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- Debate: US special relationship with Israel
- Debate: European Monetary Fund
- Debate: War on Drugs
- Debate: Military tribunals for suspected terrorists
- Debate: Conscientious objections of pharmacists to plan B pills
- Debate: Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage
- Debate: Underground nuclear waste repository
- Debate: Legalization of drugs
- Debate: English as US national language
- Debate: Net neutrality
- Debate: Climate change mitigation vs adaptation
- Debate: Timetable withdrawal from Afghanistan
- Debate: Nude beaches
- Debate: Single-sex schools
- Debate: China "one child" policy
- Debate: Single-payer universal health care
- Debate: Line-item veto
- Debate: Moving Guantanamo detainees to America
- Debate: Ban on trans fats
- Debate: Pre-selecting sex of children
- Debate: European social democracy
- Debate: Gestational surrogacy
- Debate: Does "God" really exist?
- Debate: Single-payer universal health care
- Debate: Should marriage be defined as only between a man and a woman?
- Debate: Outing of gay public figures
- Debate: Sudden-death overtime in NFL
- Debate: Developed world climate change debt to developing world
- Debate: Armed pilots in airplanes
- Debate: Ban on public nudity
- Debate: Decriminalizing marijuana possession
- Debate: Ending fossil fuel subsidies
- Debate: Genetic screening
- Debate: Images of death in the media
- Debate: Atheism advertisements
- Debate: Palestinian right of return
- Debate: Human life as beginning at conception
- Debate: Should a human ovum be granted legal "personhood?"
- Debate: Value added tax (VAT)
- Debate: Partial-birth abortion
- Debate: Ex-felon right to vote
- Debate: Electronic medical records
- Debate: Mandatory counseling of women seeking abortions
- Debate: Life without parole vs. death penalty
- Debate: Free market capitalism
- Debate: Communism
- Debate: Socialism
- Debate: Death penalty for child rape
- Debate: Was the War in Iraq worth it?
- Debate: Emissions exemptions for China and India
- Debate: Are homosexuals born gay?
- Debate: Education vouchers
- Debate: Prohibition of flag burning
- Debate: Term limits for elected officials
- Debate: US ban on travel to Cuba
- Debate: Church involvement in politics
- Debate: Freeze on new Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories
- Debate: Do terrorists have a right to habeas corpus?
- Debate: Abortion on the basis of physical deformity
- Debate: Is Scientology a religion?
- Debate: Junk food advertising ban
- Debate: Scientology as a state-recognized religion
- Debate: Ticket scalping
- Debate: Fair trade
- Debate: English as the official language of the EU
- Debate:Means Testing for Benefits
- Debate: Should voters be required to show photo identification?
- Debate: Naming and shaming of sex offenders
- Debate: ID checks for gun sales
- Debate: Background checks of gun buyers
- Debate: DNA database of criminals
- Debate: Secularism
- Debate: Bush v. Gore
- Debate: Banning Islamist political parties
- Debate: Compulsory vaccination
- Debate: Federal funding for embryonic stem cell research
- Debate: US nuclear weapons in Europe
- Debate: Instant-runoff voting
- Debate: US arms sales to Taiwan
- Debate: Ban on mosque minaretes in Switzerland
- Debate: US sale of F-16 fighter jets to Taiwan
- 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: Military draft
- Debate: Maximum weekly working hours
- Debate: Presidential pardons in the United States
- Debate: Mandatory drug tests of welfare recipients
- Debate: Legal recognition of sex changes
- Debate: EU federalism
- 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:Same sex civil union
- 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: Detention on the grounds of mental illness
- Debate: Open primaries
- Debate: Estate tax in the United States
- Debate:Minority Schools
- Debate: Compassionate clemency
- Debate: Racial quotas
- Debate: Mini-nukes development in the United States
- Debate: Male reproductive rights
- Debate: Should men have rights to opt-out of child support in unwanted pregnancies?
- Debate: A right to die?
- Debate: Palestinian state
- Debate: Abkhazia independence
- Debate: Premarital sex
- Debate: Swastika ban
- Debate: Ban on public sex
- Debate: Ten commandments in public buildings
- 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: Should suicide be illegal?
- Debate: Minimum weight requirements for models
- Debate: Cyprus unification vs partition
- Debate: Forbidding communion to individuals over political beliefs
- Debate: Popular election of US presidents
- Debate:Death penalty for child rape
- Debate:UN Security Council, Expansion of
- 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: Breastfeeding
- Debate: Should the Church deny communion to individuals holding opposing views?
- Debate:Two Party System
- Debate:Privatizing social security
- Debate: Single-party state
- Debate:Puerto Rico statehood in America
- Debate:Confederate Flag, Banning of
- Debate:Preventive War
- Debate: Privatizing national security
- Debate:Privatizing prisons
- Debate:Roma, Recognition of Right to Nationhood
- Debate:Printing images of prophet Muhammad
- 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: Spanking children
- Debate: School uniforms
- 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: Should the government save big corporations from bankruptcy?
- Debate: Are some companies too big to fail?
- Debate: Military draft in the United States
- Debate: Organic food
- Debate: Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
- Debate: Democrats vs. Republicans
- Debate: Gambling
- Debate: Extraordinary rendition
- Debate: Equal pay for women
- Debate: Fur coats
- Debate: Self-determination
- Debate:Cellulosic ethanol
- Debate: Russian membership in the WTO
- Debate: Sanctions
- Debate: Regifting
- Debate: Protectionism
- Debate: Israel membership in NATO
- 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:Adoption of the Euro by Britain
- Debate: Global tax
- Debate: Legalization of sado-masochism
- Debate:Yasukuni shrine in Japan, official visits
- Debate:United Nations, value of
- 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:Liquified natural gas vehicles
- 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 for
- Debate:Coalition Government
- Debate:Hydrokinetic power
- Debate:Iran crisis "grand bargain"
- Debate:Is natural gas a good substitute for coal?
- Debate:Liquified natural gas (LNG)
- Debate:Plug-in Hybrid Electrical Vehicles (PHEV)
- Debate:Social Europe
- Debate:Three Strikes
- Debate:United Nations, 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 court houses
- Debate:UN role, human rights vs. 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.



