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Campaign Finance Reform Congressional Term Limits DC & Puerto Rico Statehood Electoral College Executive Orders & Presidential Power Filibuster Ranked-Choice Voting Redistricting & Gerrymandering Supreme Court Term Limits & Reform Voter ID Laws

Abortion Affirmative Action DEI Programs Free Speech on College Campuses Hate Speech & the First Amendment LGBTQ Protections Religious Liberty Exemptions Reparations for Slavery Transgender Rights

Bail Reform Death Penalty Facial Recognition & Surveillance Felon Voting Rights Gun Control Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Marijuana Legalization Policing & Justice Reform Prison Labor Qualified Immunity for Police

Birthright Citizenship DACA & Dreamers Immigration Enforcement Immigration Policy Legal Immigration Levels Refugee & Asylum Policy Skilled Worker Visas (H-1B)

COVID-19 Pandemic Response Healthcare System Homelessness Policy Medicaid & Health Spending Medical AI Medicare Solvency Physician-Assisted Death Prescription Drug Pricing Vaccine Mandates

AI Regulation Age Verification & Kids Online Crypto Regulation Data Privacy Legislation Facial Recognition in Stores Net Neutrality Right to Repair Section 230 & Platform Liability Self-Driving Vehicles Social Media Regulation

Carbon Pricing Clean Energy Subsidies Climate Policy Electric Vehicle Mandates Endangered Species Act Reform Nuclear Energy Public Lands & Energy Drilling Water Scarcity & Rights

Gig Worker Classification Minimum Wage Non-Compete Agreements Overtime Pay Rules Paid Family Leave Remote Work & Return to Office Right-to-Work Laws Union Organizing Rules

Book Bans & Curriculum Homeschooling Regulation Parental Rights in Education School Choice & Vouchers Special Education Funding Standardized Testing in Schools Student Loan Forgiveness Teacher Pay & Tenure Tuition-Free Public College Universal Pre-K & Childcare

Counter-Terrorism Policy Foreign Aid Spending Iran Nuclear Policy NATO & Defense Burden-Sharing Taiwan Policy & Strategic Ambiguity U.S. Economic Sanctions Policy U.S. Policy on Israel-Gaza U.S. Support for Ukraine U.S.-China Relations & Trade

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Detailed, current breakdowns for every major political debate on the site.

Economy (11)

Big Tech Antitrust

Whether large technology companies should be broken up or face stricter antitrust enforcement.

Defense & Military Spending

Whether the U.S. should increase, maintain, or reduce its defense budget.

Federal Reserve Independence

Whether the Federal Reserve should remain independent from political pressure in setting interest rates and monetary policy.

Government Shutdowns & Spending

Whether Congress should pass full-year spending bills on time, and how shutdown standoffs should be resolved.

National Debt & Deficit

How urgently the government should act to reduce federal deficits and the growing national debt.

Whether local governments should cap how much landlords can raise rents.

Social Security Reform

How to address Social Security\u2019s long-term funding shortfall as the program approaches insolvency.

Whether taxes on high earners and corporations should rise to fund public programs.

Trade & Tariffs

Whether tariffs and trade restrictions protect domestic industry or raise costs for everyone.

Universal Basic Income

Whether the government should provide unconditional cash payments to all citizens.

Whether the federal government should tax accumulated wealth rather than income.

Criminal Justice (10)

Whether cash bail should be reduced or eliminated in favor of other pretrial release methods.

Whether capital punishment should remain a legal sentencing option.

Facial Recognition & Surveillance

Whether government and police use of facial recognition technology should be restricted.

Felon Voting Rights

Whether people with felony convictions should ever regain the right to vote, and at what point.

How much regulation should govern who can buy, carry, and own firearms.

Mandatory Minimum Sentencing

Whether mandatory minimum prison sentences for certain crimes should be reduced or eliminated.

Marijuana Legalization

Whether marijuana should be legal nationally, and how it should be regulated.

Policing & Justice Reform

How to balance public safety with accountability and reform in policing.

Whether incarcerated people should be required to work, and what they should be paid.

Qualified Immunity for Police

Whether the legal doctrine shielding police officers from civil lawsuits should be reformed or eliminated.

Education (10)

Book Bans & Curriculum

Whether schools and libraries should restrict access to certain books, and who should decide curriculum content.

Homeschooling Regulation

How much oversight states should have over home education, from notification to testing.

Parental Rights in Education

How much say parents should have over curriculum, materials, and their children\u2019s education.

School Choice & Vouchers

Whether public funding should follow students to charter, private, or religious schools instead of staying with traditional public schools.

Special Education Funding

Whether the federal government should fund the special education mandate it created in 1975.

Standardized Testing in Schools

Whether standardized tests should play a major role in evaluating students and schools.

Student Loan Forgiveness

Whether the government should cancel some or all federal student loan debt.

Teacher Pay & Tenure

Whether teachers are underpaid, and whether tenure protections help or hinder school quality.

Tuition-Free Public College

Whether public college should be tuition-free for every student, and who should pay for it if it is.

Universal Pre-K & Childcare

Whether government should fund and guarantee access to pre-K and childcare for all families.

Elections & Government (10)

Campaign Finance Reform

Whether stricter limits should be placed on political campaign spending and donations.

Congressional Term Limits

Whether members of Congress should face limits on how many terms they can serve.

DC & Puerto Rico Statehood

Whether Washington, D.C. and/or Puerto Rico should be admitted as U.S. states.

Electoral College

Whether the U.S. should keep the Electoral College or switch to a national popular vote for president.

Executive Orders & Presidential Power

Whether presidents should set major national policy by executive action when Congress has not passed a law.

Whether the Senate should keep the 60-vote threshold required to pass most legislation.

Ranked-Choice Voting

Whether elections should use ranked-choice voting instead of traditional single-choice ballots.

Redistricting & Gerrymandering

Whether legislative districts are being drawn fairly or manipulated for partisan advantage.

Supreme Court Term Limits & Reform

Whether the Supreme Court should adopt term limits, expand its size, or face other structural reforms.

Whether requiring identification to vote protects elections or suppresses turnout.

Technology (10)

How much government oversight should apply to the development and use of artificial intelligence.

Age Verification & Kids Online

Whether protecting children online justifies requiring everyone to prove their age before using it.

Crypto Regulation

How much oversight the government should have over cryptocurrencies, exchanges, and digital assets.

Data Privacy Legislation

Whether the U.S. should adopt comprehensive federal data privacy laws regulating how companies collect and use personal data.

Facial Recognition in Stores

Whether private companies should be able to scan customers' faces, and what consent should be required.

Whether internet providers must treat all traffic equally, and who has authority to require it.

Right to Repair

Whether manufacturers should be required to make products easier and cheaper for consumers to repair.

Section 230 & Platform Liability

Whether online platforms should remain shielded from liability for what their users post, and what changes if that shield is narrowed.

Self-Driving Vehicles

How quickly the U.S. should allow self-driving vehicles onto public roads, and who should decide.

Social Media Regulation

Whether government should regulate content moderation, algorithms, or data practices on major platforms.

Foreign Affairs (9)

Counter-Terrorism Policy

How the United States should balance surveillance powers, targeted strikes, and detention against civil liberties and the risk of prolonged conflict.

Foreign Aid Spending

Whether the U.S. should increase, maintain, or cut its foreign aid budget.

Iran Nuclear Policy

Whether the U.S. should accept a deal that leaves Iran enriching uranium, or hold out for zero enrichment.

NATO & Defense Burden-Sharing

Whether NATO allies are contributing a fair share to collective defense relative to the U.S.

Taiwan Policy & Strategic Ambiguity

Whether the U.S. should maintain deliberate ambiguity about defending Taiwan or shift toward a clearer security commitment.

U.S. Economic Sanctions Policy

Whether broad economic sanctions are an effective foreign policy tool, and how to weigh their humanitarian costs against their strategic goals.

U.S. Policy on Israel-Gaza

How the U.S. should balance military support for Israel with humanitarian concerns and diplomatic efforts toward a broader resolution.

U.S. Support for Ukraine

How much military and financial aid the U.S. should continue providing Ukraine in its war with Russia.

U.S.-China Relations & Trade

How the U.S. should balance economic engagement with China against growing strategic competition.

Healthcare (9)

COVID-19 Pandemic Response

Whether the lockdowns, school closures, mandates and emergency spending used against COVID-19 were justified, and what should be done differently next time.

Healthcare System

Whether the U.S. should move toward government-run healthcare or preserve a private insurance model.

Homelessness Policy

How cities and states should address rising homelessness, from encampments to housing and treatment programs.

Medicaid & Health Spending

Whether recent federal cuts and new work requirements for Medicaid go too far or not far enough.

Whether artificial intelligence used in diagnosis and treatment should face full medical device review, or lighter oversight that speeds tools to patients.

Medicare Solvency

How to address Medicare's projected shortfall before the hospital trust fund is depleted in 2033.

Physician-Assisted Death

Whether terminally ill patients should have a legal right to physician-assisted death.

Prescription Drug Pricing

Whether the government should set or negotiate prices for prescription drugs, and how that affects costs today against innovation tomorrow.

Vaccine Mandates

Whether government or employers should be able to require vaccinations for work, school, or public activities.

Social & Civil Rights (9)

Where legal limits should fall on ending a pregnancy, and who should decide.

Affirmative Action

Whether race or background should factor into college admissions and hiring decisions.

Whether DEI training, offices and diversity statements make workplaces fairer or make them less fair.

Free Speech on College Campuses

How universities should handle speech when both left and right say they are the ones being silenced.

Hate Speech & the First Amendment

Whether speech that demeans people based on race, religion, or identity should carry legal consequences, or remain constitutionally protected.

LGBTQ Protections

Whether federal law should guarantee marriage rights and nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ Americans, and how those guarantees interact with religious liberty.

Religious Liberty Exemptions

Whether businesses and individuals should be able to claim religious exemptions from certain anti-discrimination or health laws.

Reparations for Slavery

Whether the U.S. government should provide financial compensation for the historical harms of slavery.

Transgender Rights

How law and policy should address gender identity in areas like healthcare, legal documents, and public life.

Environment (8)

Whether the government should put a direct price on carbon emissions, through a tax or a cap-and-trade market, rather than regulating them sector by sector.

Clean Energy Subsidies

Whether the federal government should subsidize renewable energy through tax credits, and what happened when those credits were cut short in 2025 and 2026.

How aggressively government should regulate emissions and subsidize clean energy.

Electric Vehicle Mandates

Whether government should mandate a shift toward electric vehicles and phase out gas-powered cars.

Endangered Species Act Reform

Whether the Endangered Species Act should protect habitat as well as animals directly.

Whether nuclear power should expand as part of the country\u2019s energy strategy.

Public Lands & Energy Drilling

How much federal land and water should be opened to oil and gas development, and how that balances against conservation and recreation.

Water Scarcity & Rights

How shrinking water supplies in the West should be allocated among farms, cities and tribes, and whether the century-old rules governing them should change.

Labor (8)

Gig Worker Classification

Whether drivers, couriers and other app-based workers should be treated as employees with benefits and protections, or remain independent contractors.

Whether raising the federal minimum wage helps or hurts workers overall.

Non-Compete Agreements

Whether employers should be able to stop departing workers from joining a competitor, and whether such agreements should be limited by wage level, industry, or banned outright.

Overtime Pay Rules

Whether the salary cutoff for overtime eligibility should rise, and who should set it.

Paid Family Leave

Whether the United States should guarantee paid leave for new parents and family caregivers, and whether it should be run federally or left to states and employers.

Remote Work & Return to Office

Whether remote work should be a protected right, an employer's decision, or rolled back to refill offices.

Right-to-Work Laws

Whether workers should be allowed to opt out of paying union dues in unionized workplaces.

Union Organizing Rules

Whether federal rules should make it easier for workers to form unions, including recognition through signed cards rather than a secret-ballot election.

Immigration (7)

Birthright Citizenship

Whether children born in the U.S. to noncitizen or undocumented parents should automatically receive citizenship.

DACA & Dreamers

Whether undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children should receive permanent legal protections.

Immigration Enforcement

How aggressively federal immigration law should be enforced, and whether local governments should cooperate with federal agents.

Immigration Policy

How to balance border security with pathways to legal immigration.

Legal Immigration Levels

How many people the United States should admit legally each year, and on what basis.

Refugee & Asylum Policy

How many refugees and asylum seekers the U.S. should accept, and under what conditions.

Skilled Worker Visas (H-1B)

Whether the U.S. should expand or restrict skilled worker visa programs like H-1B.

Media & Information (6)

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Why Fact-Checkers Disagree

Snopes and PolitiFact reached conflicting verdicts once in 749 shared claims. What explains the rest.

Why the Same Poll Produces Two Opposite Headlines

One survey, two contradictory headlines, and neither is inaccurate. Where the difference comes from.

Where to Find Primary Sources on Any Political Issue

CRS reports, CBO scores, GAO audits and the Federal Register. What each one is, and when to reach for it.

Best Sites for Both Sides of Political Issues

How AllSides, ProCon.org and Fifty Fifty Politics differ, and which to use depending on the question you are asking.