1. Is the Biden administration doing enough to combat inflation?
2. Can the U.S. have a more liberalized border policy during the COVID-19 pandemic?
3. Are Republicans gaining momentum for the 2022 midterm elections?
4. Should the Department of Justice open a criminal probe into former President Trump’s challenges of the 2020 election result?
5. Will New York’s state legislature impeach and remove Governor Andrew Cuomo?
6. Would universal pre-K improve educational outcomes in the United States?
7. Will the Supreme Court eventually nullify the CDC’s extension of the eviction moratorium?
8. How can the U.S. stymie cooperation between China and Russia?
9. Could vaccine mandates exacerbate America’s worker shortage?
10. How can Senate Democrats win Republican support for voting rights legislation?
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This week’s R&D is on the debate over school mask mandates. While some states like South Carolina and Texas have prohibited schools from setting mask requirements, others like California and New Mexico will require them. The fight has become a grassroots battle over local education policy going into the 2021-2022 school year.
One of the first in the U.S. to start a new school year, Arizona provides an early indication of how mask-wearing could play out across the country https://t.co/j7Xh8n2ZSy
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) August 4, 2021
Read more about how students are adjusting to masks in school from @melissagomez004 at https://t.co/1alTkUmAXX
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) August 3, 2021
Arkansas is one of a handful that blocked school districts from mandating the use of masks in schools. Within days of reopening, hundreds were quarantined. https://t.co/ERPlCfabpT
— U.S. News & World Report (@usnews) August 5, 2021
1. Is the U.S. headed for another COVID-19 lockdown?
2. Should state governors issue mask mandates for schools or leave the decision to local officials?
3. If Sarah Palin decides to run for the Senate, how big of a threat is she to Lisa Murkowski’s re-election hopes?
4. How much power should social media services have to remove content they believe to be “disinformation”?
5. Does a delta COVID surge constitute a major threat to President Biden’s domestic agenda?
6. Should Congress have extended the federal eviction moratorium?
7. Are Texas Democrats winning their battle against the state’s proposed voting law?
8. What is the best way to reform policing in the United States?
9. Will vaccination mandates have to come from employers instead of the federal government?
10. How can the U.S. prevent a shortage of critical semiconductors in the future?
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U.S. President Joe Biden is embracing an economic nationalism unheard of since the Cold War—only this time, the bogeyman is China, FP’s @michaelphirsh writes. https://t.co/py2NOKfTDL
— Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) June 11, 2021
Biden’s decision reflects his foreign policy for the American middle-class paradigm, which focuses on domestic considerations over international ones. The irony, though, is that the American middle class largely doesn’t care about Afghanistan. https://t.co/XVjaKZ8GTM
— Brookings Institution (@BrookingsInst) June 7, 2021
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As part of the leadup to the 2021 National Speech and Debate Association (NSDA) National Tournament, Extemp Central will be providing daily research & development (R&D) posts for each of the tournament’s fourteen topic areas. These will include links to important articles about each. It is hoped that these will aid in extempers preparation for this year’s national tournament.
U.S. jobless claims declined to a pandemic low last week, a sign companies are hesitant to lay off employees as the U.S. economy quickly recovers. https://t.co/ooV8eSVTMH
— Real Time Economics (@WSJecon) June 13, 2021
Heard on the Street: Jobs are hard to fill and wages are rising, but other factors will persuade the Federal Reserve to hold off on raising interest rates for now https://t.co/ZlZXhsAnEI
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) June 4, 2021
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As part of the leadup to the 2021 National Speech and Debate Association (NSDA) National Tournament, Extemp Central will be providing daily research & development (R&D) posts for each of the tournament’s fourteen topic areas. These will include links to important articles about each. It is hoped that these will aid in extempers preparation for this year’s national tournament.
How the gas tax could help pay for a $1 trillion infrastructure proposal https://t.co/F0xVdifNbZ
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 12, 2021
A group of five Republicans and five Democrats reached an agreement on a proposed infrastructure spending bill https://t.co/VW9nPS24VT pic.twitter.com/5QQsQ9ZhMz
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 11, 2021
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As part of the leadup to the 2021 National Speech and Debate Association (NSDA) National Tournament, Extemp Central will be providing daily research & development (R&D) posts for each of the tournament’s fourteen topic areas. These will include links to important articles about each. It is hoped that these will aid in extempers preparation for this year’s national tournament.
NASA is heading back to Venus. What do scientists hope to discover? https://t.co/UxkgZNPgPn
— The Week (@TheWeek) June 12, 2021
With $171 billion marked for R&D, President Biden’s proposed 2022 budget hands a starring role to applied science. https://t.co/TpjPL9M41Q
— News from Science (@NewsfromScience) June 8, 2021
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The growth of the racial justice movement has brought great visibility, but also difficult questions over how to sustain it and how to effect meaningful change. https://t.co/hhVAcz0MbH
— NYT National News (@NYTNational) June 6, 2021
George Floyd’s death powered a wave of activism among white Americans, and data suggests it dramatically changed public opinion on racial justice issues https://t.co/xi9l6c6muS
— POLITICO (@politico) May 26, 2021
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As part of the leadup to the 2021 National Speech and Debate Association (NSDA) National Tournament, Extemp Central will be providing daily research & development (R&D) posts for each of the tournament’s fourteen topic areas. These will include links to important articles about each. It is hoped that these will aid in extempers preparation for this year’s national tournament.
Joe Manchin’s filibuster defense praised by one of his biggest Republican critics https://t.co/VbojQceQS1
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) June 11, 2021
#WasteOfTheDay from @open_the_books. Congressional earmarks were banned for a decade, but now they’re back, baby! And
324 members of congress have proposed 3,309 new earmarks that will cost you, the taxpayer, $10 Billion. It’s your money!https://t.co/6x5tCGsqVc— RealClearPolicy (@realclearpolicy) May 14, 2021
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If you want an excellent overview of the 22 outstanding cases, check out @AHoweBlogger’s summary. https://t.co/mXEq9s2OHD
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) June 10, 2021
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Monday that immigrants allowed to stay in the U.S. temporarily for humanitarian reasons may not apply for green cards if they had entered the country unlawfully. The case could affect tens of thousands of people. https://t.co/wwy50ZHwHY
— NYT National News (@NYTNational) June 8, 2021
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As part of the leadup to the 2021 National Speech and Debate Association (NSDA) National Tournament, Extemp Central will be providing daily research & development (R&D) posts for each of the tournament’s fourteen topic areas. These will include links to important articles about each. It is hoped that these will aid in extempers preparation for this year’s national tournament.
“By taking principled, consistent stands for academic freedom and free speech, people on the left and the right can protect everyone,” @conor64 writes: https://t.co/2l6eAKByFV
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) May 21, 2021
If the First Amendment’s guarantee of a free press means anything, it has to mean that the government cannot seize reporters’ phone and email records in the hope of smoking out their confidential sources. https://t.co/PAolv5rX5P
— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) June 9, 2021
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As part of the leadup to the 2021 National Speech and Debate Association (NSDA) National Tournament, Extemp Central will be providing daily research & development (R&D) posts for each of the tournament’s fourteen topic areas. These will include links to important articles about each. It is hoped that these will aid in extempers preparation for this year’s national tournament.
How did Vice President Kamala Harris’ Central America trip go? Here’s what two experts have to say, in today’s Essential Politics: https://t.co/ufSUoHZ2oF
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) June 9, 2021
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has advocated an approach to national security that he calls integrated deterrence. @MichaelEOHanlon says the concept is an important one. https://t.co/S01Pw3xLuY
— Brookings Institution (@BrookingsInst) May 31, 2021
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Energy Department announces new steps on domestic battery production https://t.co/Q0sadPojx3 pic.twitter.com/S3UqWJc2yR
— The Hill (@thehill) June 8, 2021
Climate action – driven by profitable clean energy – is merging with economic progress, pushing the climate debate toward irrelevance. https://t.co/XaGVjr9ihe
— The Christian Science Monitor (@csmonitor) June 8, 2021
Note: These will be the last questions of the 2020-2021 competitive year. New questions will be uploaded the week of August 2.
1. How will Facebook’s decision to ban President Trump until January 2023 affect the 2022 midterm elections?
2. Should the Biden administration refuse to defend the constitutionality of a male-only selective service system if the Supreme Court takes the case of National Coalition For Men v. Selective Service System?
3. How should the U.S. respond to cyberattacks originating from Russia?
4. Will the G7 tax deal prove beneficial for the U.S. economy?
5. Why has President Biden abandoned the public option?
6. Will there be a bipartisan agreement on infrastructure?
7. Are state-level assault weapons bans unconstitutional?
8. Who will win the New York City mayoral Democratic primary?
9. Should the U.S. continue to use drone strikes as part of its counter-terrorism strategy?
10. Has Common Core failed?
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As part of the leadup to the 2021 National Speech and Debate Association (NSDA) National Tournament, Extemp Central will be providing daily research & development (R&D) posts for each of the tournament’s fourteen topic areas. These will include links to important articles about each. It is hoped that these will aid in extempers preparation for this year’s national tournament.
Since taking office, Biden has focused on other goals, such as expanding the size of subsidies under the 2010 health care law and broadening eligibility for them. He did not include a public option in the economic proposals he is working to pass this year.https://t.co/dUHcKcaebp
— Roll Call (@rollcall) May 27, 2021
Biden cites the new Affordable Care Act subsidies as a reason, and he calls to make them permanent. https://t.co/BMDvPhLyOe
— HuffPost Politics (@HuffPostPol) May 11, 2021