Research feed

The searches a coach runs every week, one click each.

For every current topic and every resolution in the LD pool: the news search, the scholarly search, the Congressional Research Service search, and a government-only web search. Run them Monday, cut what is new, and your file stays current without a paid brief.

Launchers open the search engines with the query filled in. Nothing is stored. Add a Google Alert for any query to get new results by email.

Lincoln-Douglas: space colonization

space colonization ethicsNews Scholar CRS .gov
Artemis Accords lunar baseNews Scholar CRS .gov
existential risk space settlementNews Scholar CRS .gov
Outer Space Treaty MarsNews Scholar CRS .gov

Public Forum: data center moratorium

data center moratoriumNews Scholar CRS .gov
data center electricity ratesNews Scholar CRS .gov
large load tariff data centerNews Scholar CRS .gov
PJM capacity prices data centersNews Scholar CRS .gov

Policy: national health insurance

single-payer health care costNews Scholar CRS .gov
Medicare for All CBONews Scholar CRS .gov
uninsured rate 2026News Scholar CRS .gov
medical debt surveyNews Scholar CRS .gov

Big Questions: technology and ethics

AI governance gapNews Scholar CRS .gov
AI Index 2026News Scholar CRS .gov
EU AI Act enforcementNews Scholar CRS .gov
AI incidents 2026News Scholar CRS .gov

LD topic pool

zoos animal welfare ethicsNews Scholar CRS .gov
de-extinction ethicsNews Scholar CRS .gov
rights of nature legalNews Scholar CRS .gov
autonomous weapons ethicsNews Scholar CRS .gov
renewable energy subsidiesNews Scholar CRS .gov
universal basic income pilot resultsNews Scholar CRS .gov
candidate privacy public right to knowNews Scholar CRS .gov

The weekly routine

Run the four launchers for your topic.
Open anything from a government, academic, or major-outlet source published this week.
Cut one card per source with the card cutter.
Update your blocks in the case builder.
Log it; the practice log counts cards cut.

Source hierarchy

Government data and reports, then peer-reviewed research, then nonpartisan research institutions, then major news outlets, then everything else. The research page shows how we apply it to our own claims; the evidence library labels industry-funded and advocacy sources.

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