1. Should President Biden demand Lloyd Austin’s resignation?
2. Would it be constitutional for the federal government to restrict misinformation on social media platforms?
3. Should health departments relax COVID-19 quarantine guidelines for schools?
4. If the federal government were to pass a slave reparations bill, how should it work?
5. Is Marjorie Taylor Greene laying the groundwork for a presidential run?
6. Will failure in Afghanistan weaken the state of America’s foreign alliances?
7. Has the #MeToo movement been a success?
8. Should the SEC require human-capital disclosures by companies?
9. Does the U.S. need to re-evaluate its approach toward Pakistan?
10. Should Congress extend child tax credit payments beyond 2021?
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This week’s R&D is on American infrastructure. The Biden administration has made upgrading American infrastructure a policy priority and worked across the aisle with Republicans on a $1 trillion package in the Senate. The House has yet to vote on the legislation, but progressives are threatening to balk unless the chamber votes on President Biden’s $3.5 trillion social infrastructure package first. Passage of either bill would be a major domestic success for President Biden, but is also showing the difficulties of moving legislation in today’s partisan climate.
What’s in the U.S. Senate’s infrastructure bill?
Here’s a comparison of the plan President Biden proposed in March and the one that passed on Tuesday. https://t.co/ZffSvPfjSK
— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 10, 2021
From @WSJopinion: As Biden’s approval rating falls, the President needs a win. But Congress isn’t poised to provide, as Democrats feud over the infrastructure bill and budget resolution, writes @BillGalston https://t.co/3tzfrOOioT
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) August 18, 2021
The bipartisan infrastructure bill includes $65 billion for internet development – some states need more help than others. https://t.co/Tv3wdDub6O
— U.S. News & World Report (@usnews) August 17, 2021
1. What lessons should the United States learn from the War in Afghanistan?
2. Should states require teachers to get the COVID-19 vaccine?
3. What role should the United States play in stabilizing Haiti?
4. How can organized labor recover its footing?
5. Why are Joe Biden’s approval numbers slipping?
6. Should Jerome Powell be nominated for another term?
7. Has social media made American life worse?
8. Are the structures of American public education crumbling?
9. Does the Federal Reserve need to take the threat of inflation more seriously?
10. Is Andrew Cuomo’s political career over?
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This week’s R&D is on the war in Afghanistan. In 2001, the United States helped the Northern Alliance overthrow Afghanistan’s Taliban regime due to the Taliban harboring 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden. Now, the United States is withdrawing its forces from the country and the Taliban has captured nearly a dozen of the country’s provincial capitals. International observers question whether the Afghan government can fight on its own and worry about how a restored Taliban regime will treat the rights of women, ethnic minorities, and political dissidents.
The West may want to forget about Afghanistan, but that won’t be possible. Of the many bad options Biden faced, he chose perhaps the worst. https://t.co/9jjZaUy8Zh
— World Politics Review (@WPReview) August 12, 2021
Ideally, America would not be withdrawing its forces from Afghanistan at all. Its rush for the exit has allowed the Taliban to drop the pretence of negotiations https://t.co/vTAszVNlFi
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) August 12, 2021
The Islamist group was in power in Afghanistan until the US led invasion in 2001https://t.co/ittpBn3iSI
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) August 12, 2021
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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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. 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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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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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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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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“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