Issues and Controversies - About This Database
Researchers' First Step Toward Understanding Today's Most Important and Controversial Issues
Recently redesigned, Issues and Controversies helps researchers understand the crucial issues we face today, exploring more than 800 hot topics in politics, government, business, education, and popular culture. Updated weekly, with links to a 13-year backfile, Issues and Controversies offers in-depth articles made to inspire thought-provoking debates. With an appealing new interface and improved search and navigation features—including convenient tabbed search results, this database is great for research papers and debate prep.
Features
- More than 800 timely, in-depth, and objective articles, exploring today's controversial issues in language student researchers can understand
- Pro and Con statements for each issue focusing researchers' thinking about a topic
- Thousands of timelines, primary source documents, and statistical tables, providing context and perspective
- Editorial cartoons, newspaper editorials, and discussion questions and activities, along with objective coverage, illustrating the range of opinions and prompting researchers to do their own critical thinking and analysis
- Issues from the headlines, such as the 2008 U.S. elections, the mortgage crisis, and steroids in sports, tying the database to current news and students' interests
- Bill of Rights in Debate, deepening understanding of constitutional issues in contemporary life
- "Need a Research Topic?" jump-starting student research
- Interviews with experts, giving a range of views on key issues
- Links to key news coverage, encyclopedia and almanac information, and other background articles, giving context to the discussion
- Includes Almanac and Encyclopedia
- Redesigned Curriculum Tools area, promoting classroom use, with practical activities and research tools for students and educators
- New persistent record links and more prominent citations.
