CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES RESEARCH TOPICS
Adoption Policies
Affirmative Action
Age Discrimination
AIDS Discrimination
AIDS – Global Responses
Air/Water Pollution
Alcohol Issues
Alternative Medicine
Athletic Code
Americans with Disabilities
Act
Anti-trust Laws (Monopolies)
Animal Rights/Testing
Arts Education
Arts
Funding/N.E.A.
Assisted Suicide/Euthanasia
Balancing the Budget
Beauty Pageants
Bilingual Education
Birth Control Policy
Border Policies
Bush/Gore 2000 Election
Campaign Finance Reform
Capital Punishment/Death
Penalty
Capitalism vs. Communism
Celebrity Privacy/Paparazzi
Censorship
Channel One
Children’s Rights
Church/State Separation
Civil Liberties
Cloning/Genetic Engineering
Condoms in Schools
Confederate Symbols
Corporal Punishment
Corporate Crime
Corporate Subsidies
Crime and Race
Diamond Trade Abuses
Drug Policy
Drug Testing
Ebonics
Education Standards
Electoral College
Electronic Privacy
Elwha Dam Removal
Endangered Species Act
Evolution vs. Creationism
Fair Trade
FDA Drug Approval Policy
Fishing Rights
Flag Burning
Foreign Aid
Gays in the Military
Gay Rights (Marriage,
Adoption,
etc)
Gender Differences
Genetically Engineered Food
Global Warming
Greenpeace/Environmentalist
Activities
Gun Control
Halliburton
Hate Crime Laws
Health Care
Home Schooling
Homelessness
Hurricane Katrina/FEMA
Failures
Immigration Policies
International Terrorism
Internet Regulation
Ivory Trade
Judicial Activism
Juvenile Justice
Labor Unions
Learning Disabilities
Legal Reform –
Victimization/Personal
Responsibility
Locker Searches
Logging in National Forests
Logging/Spotted Owls
Lotteries
Mandatory Sentencing
Media Coverage of Trials
Media Influence on Culture
Medical Ethics – Human Trials
Medical Marijuana
Medicare Reform
Military Draft
Military Preparedness
Missile Defense Programs
Minimum Wage
Morality in
Napster
National Debt
National Park Policy
Native American Tribal Rights
No Child Left Behind Act
Nuclear Energy
Nuclear Weapons/Test Bans
Obesity
Oil Policies (ANWAR, etc)
Organ Allocation
Outsourcing Jobs
Parole Policy
Patriot Act
Police Corruption
Pornography
Prisoner’s Rights
Professional Sports Salaries
Prostitution
Public School Funding
Racial Discrimination
Rainforest Destruction
Religion and Medicine
Renewable Energy
Reproductive Technology
Savings and Loan Scandal
School Attendance Policy
School Bussing
School Dance Policies
School Funding
School Uniforms
School Vouchers/Private
Schools
Search for Extraterrestrial
Life
Sex Education
Sexual Harassment
Single-sex Education
Social Security Reform
Space Program
Speed Limits
States’ Rights
Stem Cell Research
Sterilizing Low Income People
in
Return
for Government Assistance
Steroids
Student Athlete Compensation
Students’ Rights
SuperFund
Sweatshops
Tax System – Rich vs. Poor, Flat
Tax
vs. Graduated Tax, Tax Cuts
Teacher Standards
Teen Curfews
Teen Pregnancy
Television Violence
Title IX – Equal Funding for
sexes
Tobacco Settlement
Trying Juveniles as Adults
Trying Parents for Crimes of
Children
United Nations
U.S./China Relations
Vegetarianism
Video Game Violence
Wal-Mart
WASL Testing Requirements
Welfare Reform
Welfare-to-Work
Wetlands Regulation
Whaling Policy
Wolves/Goats in Olympic Park
Women in the Military
Women’s Rights/Equality
World Overpopulation/Hunger
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Year-round Schools
Zoos