Debate and Speech Resources

Web Resources

These are links to general resources that team members may find useful when preparing for tournaments. They include general government, media, and academic sites.

General Debate Resources:

• Foreign Policy in Focus: Everything you ever wanted to know about Foreign Policy


• Cato Institute: The Cato Institute is non-profit organization which seeks to broaden the parameters of American public policy


• The Economist Online: Good place to look for case ideas


• National Center for Policy Analysis: This site gives you both sides of a lot of current policy issues


• New York Times Online: New York Times online. Keep in mind you might have to register a login name in order to read the full text of some of the articles


• APDA Official Homepage: American Parliamentary Debate Association Homepage.


• How to Case: This page takes you through the basic train of thought you should have when coming up with a case and also how to evaluate whether your case will make a good round or not.

Debate Societies:

• Amherst: Amherst Debate
• Bates: Bates College Debate Council
• BU: Boston University Debate Society
• Brandeis: Brandeis University Debate & Speech Society
• Bryn Mawr: Bryn Mawr College Debate Team
• Columbia: Columbia University Parliamentary Debate Team
• Cornell: Cornell Debate Association
• GWU: GWU Parliamentary Debate Society
• Harvard: Harvard Speech & Parliamentary Debate Society
• JHU: Johns Hopkins Debate Council
• Middlebury: Middlebury College Debate
• MIT: MIT Parliamentary Debate Society
• Princeton: Princeton Debate Panel
• Rutgers: Rutgers University Debate Union
• Temple: Temple University Debate
• UMBC: UMBC Parliamentary Debate Society
• UMCP: UMCP Debate
• UPenn: UPenn Debate Council
• UVA: UVA Washington Society
• Williams: Williams College Debate
• Yale: Yale Debate Association

Still can't find what you need? Check a few of these:

• Wikipedia:Good site for large amounts of information, be sure to check facts
• World Debate Institute
• University of Kansas Policy Debate Resources
• The Economist
• U.S. News and World Report
• Newsweek
• United States House of Representatives
• United States Senate
• THOMAS: U.S. Legislative Information (Library of Congress)
• The White House
• Economic Policy Institute
• Brookings Institution
• Financial Times
• The Weekly Standard
• The Nation
• The American Prospect
• Heritage Foundation
• The Washington Post
• The New York Times
• The International Herald-Tribune
• The Guardian (London)
• The Spectator (London)
• The New Statesman (London)
• The Independent (London)
• Pravda (Moscow)
• Roll Call
• The Hill
• The Cato Institute
• Findlaw.com
• National Archives and Records Administration
• U.S. Department of State
• U.S. Department of Justice
• U.S. Department of Defense
• U.S. Department of Energy
• The Christian Science Monitor
• The Los Angeles Times
• The Boston Globe
• Find Articles.com
• Arlington Country Public Library (Online Databases require valid Arlington library card)
• The Library of Congress
• National Public Radio
• BBC News (United Kingdom)
• NBC News
• ABC News
• CBS News
• The Boston Review
• White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
• European Union
• European Commission Delegation to the United States
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
• Center for Strategic and International Studies
• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Federation of American Scientists
• Clinton Administration Documents Search
• Debate Central (Mental Health)