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100.0
Abortion
(Rated once)
Abortion in the United States is a highly-charged issue involving significant political and ethical debate. In medical terms, the word abortion refers to any pregnancy...
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89.2
US Dependency on Foreign Oil
(Rated 4 times)
US energy independence is a stated goal of those who believe that the North American nations - the USA, Canada and Mexico - must reduce their reliance on oil purchased...
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88.7
Separation of church and state
(Rated 3 times)
Separation of church and state is a political and legal doctrine that government and religious institutions are to be kept separate and independent from each other. Th...
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88.4
Economy
(Rated 12 times)
The economy of the United States is the largest national economy in the world in both actual dollars and by Purchasing Power Parity. Its nominal gross domestic product...
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87.6
Legality of Cannibis
(Rated 83 times)
While more than a dozen US states have decriminalised possession or personal use of cannabis, it is illegal under the federal Controlled Substances Act of 1970. In thi...
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84.5
Teenage pregnancy
(Rated 2 times)
Teenage pregnancy is defined as a teenaged or underage girl (usually within the ages of 13–19) becoming pregnant. The term in everyday speech usually refers to women w...
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82.7
US Immigration
(Rated 3 times)
American immigration (emigration to the United States of America) refers to the movement of non-residents to the United States. Immigration has been a major source of ...
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80.3
LGBT Rights
(Rated 23 times)
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons in the United States may face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBT citizens. Six states (Massachusetts, ...
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79.9
Net neutrality
(Rated 8 times)
Network neutrality (also net neutrality, Internet neutrality) is a principle proposed for residential broadband networks and potentially for all networks. A neutral br...
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79.7
North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Program
(Rated 3 times)
North Korea (officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea or DPRK) is claimed to have an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction, and claims to possess nuclear ...
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75.2
Evolution vs. Creation
(Rated 4 times)
The Evolution vs. Creation debate is often referred to as the "Great Debate." It's the emotion-packed question of "Origins" -- why, how, and where did everything come ...
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72.3
Censorship
(Rated 9 times)
In general, freedom of speech is considered an integral United States value, as protected by the First Amendment to the United States constitution.
This freedom has c...
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71.5
Education
(Rated 2 times)
Education in the United States is mainly provided by the public sector, with control and funding coming from three levels: federal, state, and local. Compulsory educat...
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71.0
AIDS pandemic
(Rated 2 times)
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) has led to the deaths of more than 25 million people since it was first recognized in 1981, making it one of the most destru...
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70.4
National Debt
(Rated 5 times)
The United States government debt, commonly called the "public debt" or the "national debt", is the amount of money owed by the Federal government of the United States...
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65.3
Stem Cell Research
(Rated 3 times)
Stem cell laws and policy in the United States have had a complicated legal and political history. By executive order on March 9, 2009, President Barack Obama removed ...
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62.5
Social Security
(Rated 2 times)
Social Security in the United States currently refers to the federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program.
The original Social Security Act (1...
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59.0
The Arab/Israeli conflict
(Rated 5 times)
The Arab–Israeli conflict spans roughly one century of political tensions and open hostilities, though Israel itself only was established in 1948. It involves the esta...
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58.3
Health care
(Rated 7 times)
Health care in the United States is provided by many separate legal entities. Health care facilities are largely owned and operated by the private sector. Health insur...
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56.5
Tax cuts
(Rated 2 times)
In recent decades, most "supply-siders" in the United States have been Republicans (though a significant individual tax cut was proposed by President John F. Kennedy f...
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55.6
Terrorism
(Rated 5 times)
Terrorism is the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion. Another definition of terrorism is the unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence...
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50.5
Obesity
(Rated 2 times)
Obesity in the United States has been increasingly cited as a major health issue in recent decades. While many industrialized countries have experienced similar increa...
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50.5
Global warming
(Rated 4 times)
Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans since the mid-20th century and its projected continuation.
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49.0
Euthanasia
(Rated 2 times)
Euthanasia is illegal in most of the United States. Attempts to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide resulted in ballot initiatives and "legislation bills" within ...
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48.5
Internet privacy
(Rated 2 times)
Internet privacy consists of privacy over the media of the Internet: the ability to control what information one reveals about oneself over the Internet, and to contro...
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40.5
War on Drugs
(Rated 4 times)
The War on Drugs refers to the controversial prohibition campaign undertaken by the United States government, with the assistance of participating countries, intended ...
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18.0
Affirmative action
(Rated once)
The terms affirmative action and positive action refer to policies that take race, ethnicity, or gender into consideration in an attempt to promote equal opportunity o...
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12.3
Peanut Butter in Schools
(Rated 3 times)
A friend's son goes to a public school in the Lehigh Valley where his entire class has been declared a no-peanut zone because one child in the class has a peanut aller...
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10.7
Prostitition
(Rated 3 times)
In the United States, each state has the power to decide whether or not prostitution is legal in that state or part of that state. In all but two U.S. states (Nevada a...
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9.0
Gun control
(Rated once)
Gun politics in the United States, incorporating the political aspects of gun politics, and firearms rights, has long been among the most controversial and intractable...
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8.7
Animal rights
(Rated 3 times)
Animal rights, also referred to as animal liberation, is the idea that the most basic interests of animals should be afforded the same consideration as the similar int...
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2.5
Steriods in baseball
(Rated 2 times)
Over most of the course of Major League Baseball, steroid testing was never a major issue. However, after the BALCO steroid scandal, which involved allegations that to...
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1.0
Environment
(Rated 2 times)
The United States is the second largest emitter, after China, of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels. The energy policy of the United States is widely deba...
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1.0
Use of Torture in Interrogations of POW's
(Rated 2 times)
Torture in all forms is banned by the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which the United States participated in drafting. The United States is a party...
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Capital punishment
(Not yet rated)
Capital punishment in the United States varies by jurisdiction and is applied rarely, in practice only for aggravated murder and even more rarely for felony murder or ...
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Operation Iraqi Freedom
(Not yet rated)
The Iraq War or the Occupation of Iraq, referred to by the U.S. military as Operation Iraqi Freedom, is an ongoing military campaign which began on March 20, 2003 with...
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Poverty
(Not yet rated)
The most common measure of poverty in the United States is the "poverty threshold" set by the U.S. government. This measure recognizes poverty as a lack of those goods...
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