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Controversial Topic Ideas

Controversial Topics

Updated 10/29/09

9/11
Abortion
Abstinence
Abusive relationships
Addiction
Advertising
Affirmative action
Afghanistan (War)
AIDS / HIV
Air safety
Alcohol & Alcoholism
Alternative medicine
America’s global         influence
America’s youth
American family
American foreign policy
American values
American views about war
American prisons
Animal experimentation
Animal rights
Animal testing
Anthrax
Assisted suicide/ Euthanasia
Asylum
Atheism

Battered women

Biological and chemical weapons
Biomedical ethics
Biotechnology and genetic engineering
Birth control and protection
Body image
Body piercing and tattoos
Book banning
Border control
Bullying
Business ethics

Capital punishment/ Death penalty
Censorship
Cheating
Chemical and biological warfare
Child abuse
Child labor
Children and violence
Christianity
Civil liberties
Civil rights
Climate change
Cloning
Computer and internet
Confederate flag
Conservation
Conspiracy theories
Consumer fraud
Copyright
Coral reefs
Counterterrorism
Creationism
Crime
Criminal justice
Crimes against women
Crop circles
Cults
Culture
Cutting
Cyber crimes
Cyberbullying
Cyber safety
Daily prison life
Darfur
Date rape
Death & dying
Death penalty/Capital Punishment
Department of Homeland Security
Deported Aliens
Depression
Disability rights
Discrimination
Divorce
DNA testing
Domestic violence
Domestic spying
Downloading
Dropouts
Drug abuse
Drug legalization
Drug testing
Drugs and birth defects
Drugs and sports
Drunk driving
 
Eating disorders
Education
Elderly
Election of 2000
Elections
Endangered species
Energy
Engineered food
Environment
Espionage
Ethics
Ethnic groups
Ethnic violence
Euthanasia/Assisted Suicide
Evolution

Family
Family violence
Fast food
Femicide
Feminism
Food safety
Food technology
Free speech

Gambling

Gangs
Garbage
Gay marriage
Gay rights
Genetic Engineering
Genocide
Germ warfare
Global resources
Global warming
Globalization
Graffiti
Gun control
Gun violence
Guns and crime

Hate crimes
Health care
Heavy metal
Hip-hop
Homelessness
Homosexuality
Honor killings
Human rights
Human trafficking
Hurricane Katrina 
Identity theft
Illegal immigration
Immigration
Incest
Indian reservations
Information revolution
Insanity defense
Intelligent design
Internet
Interracial relationships
Iran
Iraq
Islam
 
Juvenile crime

Legal drinking age

Legal System

Mafia
Male/female roles
Marijuana
Marriage
Mass media
Materialism
Media and politics
Media violence
Medicine
Mental health
Mental illness
Middle East
Military intervention
Militias
Minorities
Muslims
 
National security
Natural disasters
Neo-Nazis
North Korea
Nuclear security
 
Obesity
Oceans
Oil Spills
Online dating
Online Pornography
Organ transplants
Organic food
Outsourcing
 
Palestine
Paranormal
Patients’ rights
Patriot Act
Peer Pressure
Plagiarism
Police Brutality
Political prisoners
Political scandals
Politics
Pollution
Pornography
Population
Poverty
Pregnancy
Prescription drugs
Prisons
Privacy
Profiling
Prohibition

Race relations
Racism
Rain forests
Recycling
Religion
Religion and politics
Religion in schools
Runaway Teens
Russia
Same-sex marriage
School prayer
School shootings
School violence
Science and religion
Security
Self-mutilation
Sex
Sexism
Sexual harassment
Sexual Predators
Sexually transmitted diseases
Shroud of Turin
Single-parent families
Slavery
Smoking/Tobacco
Social networks
Social welfare
Space exploration
Sports scandals
Stalking
Stem cell research
Stepfamilies
Stress
Street Teens (Runaway)
Suicide
Suicide bombers
Sweatshops
 
Taliban
Tattoos
Technology
Teen crime
Teen fathers
Teen mothers
Teen pregnancy
Teen rights
Teen runaways
Television
Terminal illness
Terrorism
Third World Countries
Tobacco companies
Transportation

UFOs
U.S Government
USA immigration and migration

Veganism
Victimless crimes
Video games
Vietnam War
Violence
Violence against women
Volunteerism
Voting 

War
Water
Wealth
Weight loss surgery
Weapons of mass
destruction

Welfare
Wiretapping
Women in combat
Women’s role in society
Women’s Rights
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