Learning a foreign language helps us better understand and appreciate the workings of our own language. Similarly, researching the dynamics and demographics of either of two proposed NCFCA topics, Economic Community of West African States...
The proposed NCFCA West Africa topic is a big one and a good one for researching geography, economics, and international relations. West Africa has a big future as populations and economies surge. Christianity is...
Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially reform its policy toward one or more countries in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). For the 2018-2019 school year, NCFCA proposes three resolutions,...
A recent post reviewed the three proposed Stoa policy resolutions, including this one on reforming foreign aid: Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially reform its foreign aid. All three proposed topics are...
…about 90 percent of all the plastic that reaches the world’s oceans gets flushed through just 10 rivers: The Yangtze, the Indus, Yellow River, Hai River, the Nile, the Ganges, Pearl River, Amur River,...
Stoa’s three policy resolutions offered for 2018-19 are on the StoaUSA website: reforming international policy toward infectious diseases, international conventions on environmental issues, and reforming federal government foreign aid. The resolutions are interconnected as both...
[transferred page from old ET site…] Africa High School Debate Topic Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its public health assistance to Sub-Saharan Africa. See the video on the economics of...
For Lincoln-Douglas debaters, the 2017-2018 Resolution –Resolved: Nationalism ought to be valued above globalism, invites research and discussion of U.S. and European history and economics. Global trade, investment, and migration have been central to...
How far away is China from the United States? If you live on America’s west coast and buy or sell goods, China is usually closer than Chicago. Factories across the U.S. ship goods by...
Why Flying Has Never Been Safer (Wall Street Journal, January 24, 2018) reports on the amazing worldwide 2017 safety record for air transportation. For Stoa policy debaters and NCFCA LD debaters, air travel safety has...
