For thousands of years energy technologies have advanced as knowledge expanded for discovering, transporting, and processing fuels, along with other advances in material sciences. From burning wood then peat, then coal, oil, and natural...
Transportation policies are local, state, federal. The coming year’s NCFCA topic calls for reforming federal transportation policies: Resolved: The United States Federal Government (USFG) should significantly reform its domestic transportation policy implemented by the...
For many years through the mid-1980s to 1990s we distributed a monthly publication to high school speech and debate teachers nationwide. Originally called the LD/Extemp Monthy, it was renamed Econ’87, then Econ Update. Each...
For the U.S. European country topic, which current government dietary and nutrition policies should be reformed to enable improved metabolic health and reduced medical costs in the U.S. and across Europe? U.S./Europe Nutrition and...
Economic Thinking enables speech and debate students to better understand interconnected current events and public policies. Economic principles help students see why current and proposed government policies and programs lead to unintended consequences. Since...
Water is key to prosperity across the world, from rain for agriculture to rivers for irrigation, transportation, and recreation. Too much water, like too little, causing floods or leaving land too dry, devastate and...
Low Carb Denver, a health and nutrition conference, February 23-26, featured presentations by medical doctors, nutritionists, and nutritional biochemistry researchers. Most of the speakers were from the United States, and some of Europe, Australia,...
Yesterday I had the opportunity to discuss public policy ideas with two bright and motivated high school debaters. By email we discussed a recent debate on whether public employees ought to have the right...
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Charles Dicken’s novel, A Christmas Carol, was set in England in the early 1840s. We hope England and Europe escapes the cold of the winter of 1840-41. Modern industrial societies should be safe from...
