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ABORTION
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| Commonweal |
Too Many Abortions |
| Ellen Willis |
Putting Women Back into the Abortion Debate |
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ANIMAL RIGHTS
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| Peggy Carlson |
Why We Don't Need Animal Experimentation |
| Vicki Hearne |
What's Wrong with Animal Rights? |
| Heloisa Sabin |
Animal Research Saves Human Lives |
| Peter Singer |
Animal Liberation |
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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
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| David Bruck |
The Death Penalty |
| Edward I. Koch |
Death and Justice: How Capital Punishment Affirms Life |
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CENSORSHIP AND FREE SPEECH
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| Susan Brownmiller |
Let's Put Pornography Back in the Closet |
| Richard Delgado |
Hate Cannot Be Tolerated |
| Susan Jacoby |
Notes from a Free-Speech Junkie |
| Michiko Kakutani |
The Word Police |
| Barbara Lawrence |
Four-Letter Words Can Hurt You |
| Charles R. Lawrence III |
On Racist Speech |
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DRUG LEGALIZATION
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| William J. Bennett |
Should Drugs Be Legalized? |
| Milton Friedman |
Prohibition and Drugs |
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ENVIRONMENT
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| Rachel Carson |
The Obligation to Endure |
| Al Gore |
Environmentalism of the Spirit |
| Donella Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, and Jorgen Randers |
The Limits to Growth |
| Wallace Stegner |
Wilderness Letter |
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EUTHANASIA
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| Ronald Dworkin |
Assisted Suicide: The Philosopher’s Brief |
| James Rachels |
Active and Passive Euthanasia |
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GAY RIGHTS
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| Lisa Schiffren |
Gay Marriage: An Oxymoron |
| Sam Schulman |
Gay Marriage—and Marriage |
| Andrew Sullivan |
Here Comes the Groom: A (Conservative) Case for Gay Marriage |
| Lindsy Van Gelder |
Marriage as a Restricted Club |
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STANDARDIZED TESTING
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| Rod Paige |
Testing Has Raised Students' Expectations, and Progress in Learning Is Evident Nationwide |
| Reg Weaver |
NCLB's Excessive Reliance on Testing Is Unrealistic, Arbitrary, and Frequently Unfair |
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TORTURE
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| Philip B. Heymann |
Torture Should Not Be Authorized |
| Michael Levin |
The Case for Torture |
| Clinton R. Van Zandt |
It Should Be Permissible to Torture Suspected Terrorists to Gather Information |
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