Social Issues

About.com News Issues - Use Contents to locate specific issues; each page contains pro- and con- coverage; About.com is the successor of MiningCo.

Beyond Reason: the Death Penalty and Offenders with Mental Retardation - a Human Rights Watch site.

Censored: Wielding the Red Pen - An exhibition organized by UVa Libraries showing censorship of books and ideas and authors over the centuries, illustrated with examples. 

Center for the Study of Technology and Society - A think-tank dedicated to keeping citizens informed about new advances in technology with potentials for good and bad

Debate Central
    National Center for Policy Analysis debate topic for 2002: "Resolved: That the United States federal government should establish a foreign policy significantly limiting the use of weapons of mass destruction."

Graphic Witness: Visual Arts and Social Commentary - a fine source for 19th and 20th century cartoons and comic strips; from Daumier to Slate.

Hidden Scandal, Secret Shame: Torture and Ill-Treatment of Children  [.pdf] - Amnesty International report

How Race is Lived in America - a series of articles published in the summer of 2000 in the New York Times. 

Human Rights Watch- World Report

Inequality.com: News, Information & Expertise on the Divide in Income, Wealth & Health; a named group of reporters and researchers who contribute information about the growing income gap between rich and poor in the U.S.

Public Agenda Online: the Inside Source for Public Opinion and Policy Analysis