Social Issues

  1. CNN In-Depth Specials http://www.cnn.com/SPECIAL(Cable News Network)

  2. Columbia Journalism Review Resource Guides http://www.cjr.org/ (Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism)

  3. Culture Shock (issues surrounding the arts) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/ (PBS.org)

  4. Debatabase http://www.idebate.org/debatabase/ (International Debate Education Association)

  5. Documents in the News http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/docnewsnew.html (University of Michigan)

  6. Electronic Policy Network: idea Central http://www.movingideas.org/

  7. Frontline Issues http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/ (PBS.org)

  8. Gallup Organization http://gallup.com/ (Gallup, Inc.)

  9. Google Social Issues http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Issues/

  10. Headline Spot http://headlinespot.com

  11. Human Rights Watch http://www.hrw.org/

  12. Internet Public Library: Issues and Conflicts http://www.ipl.org/cgi-bin/teen/teen.db.out.pl?id=ic0000

  13. Internet Public Library Social Issues and Social Welfare Resources http://www.ipl.org/ref/RR/static/soc80.00.00.html

  14. International Affairs Resources http://www.etown.edu/vl/ (Elizabethtown University)

  15. Jurist Hot Topics http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/(University of Pittsburgh)

  16. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ELSI Project (science-based issues) http://www.lbl.gov/Education/ELSI/ELSI.html

  17. Multnomah County Library Homework Center http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/homework/sochc.html

  18. O'Keefe Library Hot Paper Topics http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/Hot/hotindex.htm (St. Ambrose University Library)

  19. OneWorld http://www.oneworld.net

  20. Open Directory: Issues http://dmoz.org/Society/Issues

  21. Opinions/Editorials Headlinespot http://headlinespot.com/opinion/oped

  22. Politics1.com: Directory of Political Debates and Issues http://www.politics1.com/issues.htm (Ron Gunzburger, Founder and Publisher)

  23. Public Agenda Online http://www.publicagenda.orgPublic Agenda is a nonpartisan, nonprofit public opinion research and citizen education organization. (Daniel Yankelovich, Chairman and Co-Founder)

  24. CNN News http://www.cnn.com/topics/

  25. Women's Human Rights Resources http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/diana (Beatrice Tice, Director of WHRR and Chief Law Librarian)

  26. Yahoo: Full Coverage US http://fullcoverage.yahoo.com/fc/us

  27. Yahoo: Society and Culture: Issues and Causes http://dir.yahoo.com/society_and_culture/issues_and_causes

  28. Yahoo: Full Coverage http://fullcoverage.yahoo.com/fc

  29. Youth Violence: A Report of the Surgeon General http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/youthviolence/report.html (US Department of Health and Human Services)