Agricultural subsidies, bullying, climate change, health insurance, Tea Party Movement...These are just some of the hundreds of important issues that are treated in depth from all angles in the Opposing Viewpoints in Context database.

This database will help you to research, analyze and organize a broad variety of data for completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, and creating presentations on key social issues.  It may also be a good place to look for topics for your research paper when your prof says, "Write about what interests you."

What you will find:

• Pro/con viewpoint essays
• Topic overviews
• primary source documents
• periodical articles
• Biographies of social activists and reformers
• Court-case overviews
• Statistical tables, charts and graphs
• Podcasts, including weekly presidential addresses and premier NPR programs