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)