Social Issues
WEB Portals for Social Issues
Multnomah County Library Homework Center http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/homework/sochc.html
Internet Public Library Social Issues and Social Welfare Resources Debatabase http://www.idebate.org/debatabase/
Yahoo: Full Coverage US
http://fullcoverage.yahoo.com/fc/us
Gallop Organization and Social Issues and Policy
Articles and statistics based on polling data. Public Agenda Online
Public Agenda is a nonpartisan, nonprofit public opinion research and citizen education organization. O'Keefe Library Hot Paper Topics
http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/Hot/hotindex.htm
About.com Society and Values http://law.about.com/newsissues/law/library/weekly/topicsubvalu.htm
National Issues.com
American Forum for Global Education
Argus Clearinghouse (Select Social Issues)
Biomedicine and Health in the News
http://library.uchc.edu/departm/hnet/healthnews.html
CNN In-Depth Specials
Columbia Journalism Review Resource Guides
Culture Shock (issues surrounding the arts)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/
Death Penalty Information
http://teacher.deathpenaltyinfo.msu.edu/
Documents in the News
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/docnewsnew.html
Electronic Policy Network: Idea Central
Fence.com
1st Headlines
Frontline Issues
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/
Gallup Organization
Google Social Issues
http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Issues/
Hate.com: Extremists on the Internet
Headline Spot
Hot Topics in Education
http://mel.org/viewtopic.jsp?id=2059&pathid=2583
Hot Topics: Terrorist Attacks on the U.S., September 11, 2001 http://www.evergreen.edu/user/library/govdocs/hotopics/index.html
Human Rights Watch
Internet Public Library: Issues and Conflicts
http://www.ipl.org/cgi-bin/teen/teen.db.out.pl?id=ic0000
Internet Public Library Social Issues and Social Welfare http://www.ipl.org/ref/RR/static/soc80.00.00.html
International Affairs Resources
Jurist Hot Topics
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/issues/indexh.htm
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ELSI Project (science-based issues) http://www.lbl.gov/Education/ELSI/ELSI.html
Links to the News
http://poynter.org/dj/shedden/
MagPortal.com (free magazine index)
http://www.magportal.com/c/soc/
Maps in the News
http://map.lib.umn.edu/news.phtml
Michigan Electronic Library Social Issues
http://web.mel.org/viewtopic.jsp?id=55
National Center for Policy Analysis: Idea Place
http://www.ncpa.org/hotline.html
National Issues Forum
OneWorld
Open Directory: Issues
http://dmoz.org/Society/Issues/
Opinion Pages
Opinions/Editorials Headlinespot
http://headlinespot.com/opinion/oped/
Political Resources on the Net
http://www.politicalresources.net/
Politics1.com: Directory of Political Debates and Issues
http://www.politics1.com/issues.htm
Polling Report
http://www.pollingreport.com/issues.htm
Poynter.org
http://poynter.org/dj/shedden/
Public Agenda Online
Public Education Network
Social Issues
http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/homework/sochc.html
Social Issues Resource Center
Spinsanity
Stem Cell Debate
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/stemcell/
Town Hall: Issues Library
http://www.townhall.com/issueslibrary/
United Nations University--Collection on Critical Global Issues
http://www.nzdl.org/cgi-bin/library?a=p&p=about&c=ccgi
University of Michigan Documents Center: High School Debate 2000 http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/debate00.html
Women's Human Rights Resources
http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/diana/
Yahoo: Government: Political Issues http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/U_S__Government/Politics/Political_Issues/
Yahoo: Society and Culture: Issues and Causes http://dir.yahoo.com/society_and_culture/issues_and_causes/
Yahoo: Full Coverage
http://fullcoverage.yahoo.com/fc/
Youth Violence: A Report of the Surgeon General http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/youthviolence/report.html
10 X 10 (100 words and pictures that define the time)
http://www.tenbyten.org/now.html
Cartoons
Politicalcartoons.com
http://www.politicalcartoons.com/
Cartoonstock
Nytimesimages.com
http://www.nytimages.com/cartoons.html
Time.com: Cartoons of the Week
http://www.time.com/time/cartoons/
USA Today: Editorial Cartoons
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/cartoons.htm
Yahoo! News: Editorial Cartoons (Click on the first cartoon for more)
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=index2&cid=1078
Global Affairs
Also check SIRS, Facts.com, bigchalk, ABC-CLIO World Geography, EBSCOhost, GaleNet in Catalogs and Databases
Incore Country Guides
http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/cds/countries/index.html
CNN Special (select World)
Global Issues
Globalization101.org
http://www.globalization101.org/
Global Issues on the UN Agenda
http://www.un.org/partners/civil_society/agenda.htm
UN Collection on Critical Global Issues
http://www.sadl.uleth.ca/nz/cgi-bin/library?a=p&p=about&c=ccgi
PBS FRONTLINE/World
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/
Out There News: Megastories
Economist Country Briefings
http://www.economist.com/countries/
One World
http://www.oneworld.net/article/frontpage/10/3
Freedom in the World
http://www.freedomhouse.org/research/
CSIS
Open Directory (Regional)
Amnesty International Annual Report
http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/aireport/
Contemporary Conflicts
Global Witness
Human Rights Watch
Yahoo: Full Coverage World
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/full_coverage/world/
Discover what the world thinks about the U.S. Translated foreign news
World News.com
World Newspapers, Magazines, and News Sites in English
http://www.worldandi.com/ http://www.world-newspapers.com/
Online Newspapers
Newslink
Global Issues that Affect Everyone
LIU Institute for Global Studies
Simultaneous Policy
http://www.simpol.org/dossiers/dossier-UK/html-UK/interface-UK.html
World News Links
http://mciunix.mciu.k12.pa.us/~spjvweb/stucurre.html#International
Least Developed Countries Report
http://www.unctad.org/Templates/webflyer.asp?docid=4810&intItemID=3074&lang=1&mode=toc