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...
A November 12 article in The Hill explains why: Natural gas: A wellspring for the US and global energy future. For students advocating energy policy reforms, natural gas provides reliable, inexpensive, and clean energy...
The US Federal Government promotes, discourages, taxes, subsidizes and regulates a range of energy policies toward European countries. Current policies raise costs, consume tax dollars, reduce energy reliability, and increase pollution. What’s not to...
The economics of trade and trade policy will be key to the NCFCA resolution on import and/or export policy reform. And for the Stoa league with its U.S.-European country or countries resolution, trade policy...
The 2022-23 NCFCA team policy topic is: The United States Federal Government should significantly reform its import and/or export policy. Congress has passed and the USFG administers a wide range of import and export...
Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially reform its policy towards one or more countries in Europe. The Stoa Spring Vote 2022 page briefly reviews past US military operations for Europe (WWI, WWII,...
Many interesting resolutions with great opportunities to learn, discuss, and debate. [Update: the import-export policy reform topic was chosen. Discussed in other posts.] Let’s start with Africa: “The United States Federal Government should substantially...
It is very good news that hundreds of millions are on the path to prosperity heading to cities for opportunities. Michael Cox used this example: imagine a few people dropped into a jungle, just one...
Imagine a young Ebenezer Scrooge debating the foreign aid or international terrorism topics. How do we best reduce poverty and conflict in the developing world? Scrooge competed in an early 1800s English debating society...
