This document contains a list of over 150 potential debate topics across a wide range of social, political, and ethical issues. The topics cover areas like healthcare, the environment, criminal justice, education, technology, and more. Specific topics included are abortion, academic freedom, acid rain, adoption, affirmative action, aging population, animal experimentation, climate change policy, creationism vs. evolution, death penalty, endangered species, family violence, gambling, gay marriage, global warming, gun control, immigration, inner city poverty, Iraq, medical ethics, poverty, recycling, school violence, social security reform, stem cell research, terrorism, and women's rights among many others.
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1. Abortion
Abuse Of The Elderly
Abused Women
Academic Dishonesty
Academic Freedom
Acid Rain
Addiction
Adoption
Affirmative Action
Afghanistan
Africa
Age Discrimination
Aging Population
Agricultural Policy
AIDS/HIV
Air Pollution
Airline Safety
Alcohol Abuse
Aliens and UFO's
Alternative imprisonment
Alternative Medicine
American Education Reform
Amnesty
Animal Experimentation
Animal Rights
Animal Welfare
Anorexia Nervosa
Anti-Semitism
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Armed Conflicts
Arms Control
Civil Rights
Climate Change Policy
Condoms In Schools
Creationism vs. Evolution
Cuba
Dating Campus Issues
Death Penalty
Depression
Dieting
Disabilities Act
Domestic ViolenceDrug Policy
Drunk Driving
Endangered Oceans
Endangered Species
Espionage and Intelligence Gathering
Ethnic Violence
Euthenasia
Family Violence
Fat Tax On Food
Feminism
Foreign Oil Dependence
Foreign Policy
Foster Care
Fraud
Gambling
Gangs
Gay Marriage
Gay Rights
Genetic Engineering
2. Genetically Engineered Foods
Genocide
Global Resources
Global Warming
Government Fraud and Waste
Gun Control
Hate Crime
Health Care Policy
Home Schooling
Homeland Security
Homeless in America
Human Cloning
Immigration
Infectious Diseases
Inner City Poverty
Internet Chatrooms
Iraq
Islamic Fundamentalism
Juvenile Crime
Language Policy
Legal System
Littering
Marriage and Divorce
Media Violence
Medical Ethics
Medicinal Marijuana
Medicine Abuse
Minimum Wage
Missile Defense System
National Tobacco Settlement
Nonproliferation
Nuclear Technology
Organ Donation
Organized Crime
Peace
Physician-Assisted Suicide
Polygamy
Pornography
3. Poverty
Prison regime
Race Relations
Racial Profiling
Rain Forests
Recycling
Religious Right
Reproductive Technologies
Russia
School Uniforms
School Violence
Sex Education
Single Parent Families
Smoking
Social Security Reform
Social Welfare
Space Exploration
Stadium Taxes
Stem Cell Research
Tax Reform
Teen Pregnancy
Term Limits
Terrorism
Tobacco Industry
Trade with China
Transportation
US Budget
US War on Drugs
Urban Terrorism
Vaccinations
Violent Video Games
Voluntary National Testing
War Crimes
War On Drugs
Water Resources
Weapons Disarmament
Welfare Reform
Women in the Military
4. Women's Rights
Working Women
World Trade
More Topics:
The case for organ donation
The need for recycling
Why the death penalty should be abolished
The need for gun control
The dangers of taking illegal steroids
How to pay off your credit card
Avoiding drinking or drunk driving
Why we should abolish school uniform
Global Warming - What we can do about it
Why we should wear seat belts in cars
Why you should become a blood donor
The dangers of gambling
Gay marriage
Euthanasia
Avoiding student debt
Avoiding junk food
Pay off your student loan in three easy steps
Volunteering - What can you do about it?
Golf - the best hobby in the world or a complete waste of time?
Ten good tips for legal tax avoidance
Three easy ways to improve your time management
Can drugs reverse the ageing process?
If you believe - they put a man on the moon
Ten things you can do for a Dollar/ Euro/ Pound
What you should wear for your next date/ job interview
More topics
Animal rights
I can make you thin
Princess Diana - a cover up?
Internet - the death of the newspaper?
Can we eradicate AIDS in Africa?
Is Broadband economic in rural areas?
What good is keep fit?
Sex, drugs and rock and roll - good fun or a major health hazard?
Getting to the top of the waiting list
Road congestion charging - the way of the future?
Dogs - wolves in the living room or man's best friend?
7 easy ways to simplify your life?
5. The five day detox
The Loch Ness monster really does exist
Creative thinking
Has the DaVinci code just been made up?
Half man - half robot. Should we be scared?
Political
Creative thinking
Vote for me
Why there should be a United States of Europe
An easy way to give up smoking
Why prostitution should be legalized
How we can get more people to vote?
Why the death penalty should be abolished in the United States
Why we should not consume genetically modified crops?
Should religious clothes be banned in schools?
The war in Iraq - was it justified?
Famous lives
The greatest American./ Briton/ French Person/ Scientist/ Discoverer/ Adventurer of all
time
Scott of the Antarctic - hero or failure?
Winston Churchill - good man or a famous alcoholic?