About This Database

Researchers' First Step Toward Understanding Today's Most Important and Controversial Issues

Issues and Controversies helps researchers understand today's crucial issues by exploring hundreds of hot topics in politics, government, business, society, education, and popular culture. Updated weekly, with a 15-year backfile, Issues and Controversies offers in-depth articles made to inspire thought-provoking debates. Its straightforward presentation of the key facts, arguments, history, and current context of today's most important and timely issues make the database an ideal resource for research papers, debate preparation, and persuasive writing assignments. The articles are written by Facts On File's own expert writers and editors. The content is original and proprietary, meaning the database does not lose information over time.

Highlights:

• Extensive and Objective Coverage: more than 900 timely, in-depth articles covering complex hot-button issues in language students can understand
• Pro and Con statements: focusing researchers' thinking
• Rich Related Resources: editorial cartoons, newspaper editorials, and discussion questions and activities, along with objective coverage, illustrating the range of opinions and prompting researchers to do their own critical thinking and analysis
• "Need a Research Topic?"
• Curriculum Tools and full coverage of each National High School Debate Topic.

Features:

• Bill of Rights in Debate: deepening understanding of constitutional issues in contemporary life
• Issues from the headlines including topics such as military conflicts, government bailouts, energy policy, health care, college tuition costs, and infotainment
• Links to key news coverage and other background information lending context to discussion
• Thousands of timelines, primary source documents, and statistical tables
• Interviews with experts
• World Almanac^® content and full Encyclopedia.