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Each issue article is an attempt to form a persuasive analysis of its topic.

The articles take on different forms, irrespective of the subject:

Expository articles give a general approach to specific issues in politics.

Comprehensive articles are far grander in scale, containing a thesis and defending it with specific argumentation, and pre-empt most of the major arguments against the thesis. Comprehensive articles generally contain an index and companion links to guide you through multiple pages of the article if you wish to skip to or past certain portions.

Editorials are much simpler and seek to argue a point, usually quite controversial, but do not use the focus or scale of a comprehensive article, and pursue a less policy-oriented perspective.

Tutorial articles seek to inform and educate on particular issues that people are often underinformed about, and then may have additional biased sections within.





Ethics
Abortion - The right to life is an indispensable part of any free society. Children are deserving of our protection from neglect or abuse, even if they are unwanted or unborn.
Picking Sides - Are you still confident in your beliefs, given the opinion the future consensus will hold of you? History is watching.
Slavery & Abortion - Reject the mentality that denies the humanity of humans.

Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy Philosophy - Realists and liberalists, classicals and neos.
Republican Foreign Policy - The Republican Party, moreso than the Democratic Party, has always been animated by entwining both morality and freedom into a cohesive whole. This is especially present during discussions of trade, expansion, borders and wars.
Alogogenesis - Abiogenesis was disproven because it takes the building blocks of life to produce life. Unfortunately, the equivalent for diplomacy and trade policy has not yet been fully accepted. Many discussions of foreign policy do not accept the premise that it takes the building blocks of freedom and democracy to produce them.
Muslim Sects - The Islamic religion is complex, as is the culture of Muslim societies, and as such this is by no means a comprehensive explanation. Rather, it seeks to give an introduction to Islam for Westerners, with some attention paid toward Islamist violence.

Capitalism
Global Warming Sham ( #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 ) - The ideological, semi-religious way in which many environmentalists conduct debate needs to be checked by criticism, skepticism and a greater reliance on evidence from all parties involved in the debate.
Capitalism By Halves - Putting socialist strictures on an otherwise free system can leave everybody unsatisfied.
Exclusionary Identities and Wealth - If you can't see rich people as valuable, unique individuals for the sake of being reasonable and fair, at least refrain from wealth-bashing in deference to many millions of 20th-century victims of that particular way of thinking.
Zero-Sum Economics and the Political Left - In contrast to a positive-sum game where everybody can benefit at the same time or where the overall winnings outweigh the losses, a zero-sum game requires that every winner produce a loser.
Price Controls - politicians and people often tend to resort to artificial, coercive price controls whenever they feel they're caught on the short end of the stick.
Trade Deficit - The trade deficit reflects the natural process of wealth spreading to the rising developed world, which is good.
Transportation and City Planning - We shouldn't accept the one-size-fits-all policy of those who want to limit the size of our houses, dictate the location of our homes, shrink the size of our stores, increase the price of our products, decrease the selection of commercial goods, and force us all to follow the direction and timetable of public transit.

Law
How Does The Supreme Court Work? ( #0 | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 ) - In an attempt to educate and entertain, this series of issue articles covers the processes, rules and practices of the Supreme Court and the US court system.
Supreme Court Term Limits - Should US Supreme Court Justices have term limits?

Politics
Libertarianism - While most everyone exempts government from basic rules and standards, thereby allowing the government to get away with theft for example, libertarians want to reduce or eliminate these contradictions. At its core, libertarianism is about applying the rule of law and liberty to governments as well as to people.
Historical Party Breakdowns - The history of political groupings that have been represented in the US Congress.
Nolan Chart - Beyond a few problems, the test is still very useful in distinguishing and identifying the basic standpoint of a given political perspective.
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. - Andre Gide