Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Opposing Viewpoints in Context covers today’s hottest social issues, from Offshore Drilling to Climate Change, Health Care to Immigration. Opposing Viewpoints in Context helps students research, analyze and organize a broad variety of data for conducting research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, creating presentations and more.
This resource helps students explore issues from all perspectives, and includes:
- More than 14,000 pro/con viewpoint essays
- 5,000+ topic overviews
- More than 300 primary source documents
- 300 biographies of social activists and reformers
- More than 775 court-case overviews
- 5 million periodical articles
- Nearly 6,000 statistical tables, charts and graphs
- Nearly 70,000 images and a link to Google Image Search
- Thousands of podcasts, including weekly presidential addresses and premier NPR programs
- A national and state curriculum standards search, correlated to the content that allows educators to quickly identify material by grade and discipline
Opposing Viewpoints in Context contains more than 700 Greenhaven Press, Gale, Macmillan Reference USA™, Charles Scribner’s Sons® and U·X·L titles. New reference content is added on an ongoing basis, and new full-text periodical and newspaper articles are added every day. Included in the resource are:
- More than 400 titles from Greenhaven Press Series, including Opposing Viewpoints, Opposing Viewpoints Digests, At Issue, Contemporary Issues Companion, Current Controversies and Teen Decisions
- Fifteen proprietary Gale print sets, including Activists, Rebels, and Reformers; Civil Rights in the United States; Drugs and Controlled Substances: Information for Students; Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy; Environmental Encyclopedia; Great American Court Cases; Tsunamis; Encyclopedia of Sociology; and Macmillan Profiles: Humanitarians and Reformers
Nation Digital Archive
Online access to back issues of one of the longest-published American magazines of opinion and criticism, covering politics, culture, books and the arts - in America and around the world - from a liberal/leftist viewpoint.
Left Index
World Press Encyclopedia
This survey of press and electronic media covers over 200 countries and their systems. Arranged alphabetically by country, entries include overview and background, economic framework, general characteristics, number and type of media, press laws, censorship issues, state-press relations, education and training in journalism, and more. 2nd ed, edited by Amanda C. Quick.
CQ Researcher
CQ Researcher is noted for its in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Reports are published weekly in print and online 44 times a year by CQ Press, a division of Congressional Quarterly Inc. Each single-themed, 12,000-word report is researched and written by a seasoned journalist. The consistent, reader-friendly organization provides researchers with an introductory overview; background and chronology on the topic; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources.
Alt-Press Watch
A full text database of over 60 newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press, covering ecology and the environment, grassroots organizing, labor, indigenous peoples, public policy, genetics, and much more.
Catholic Periodical & Literature (EBSCO)
Issues & Controversies
Full text of balanced, accurate discussions of over 250 controversial topics in the news supplemented with chronologies, illustrations, maps, tables, sidebars, contact information, and bibliographies including primary source documents and news editorials.
Wall Street Journal, 1889-1994
Searchable access to the backfile of the Wall Street Journal newspaper (Eastern Edition) from the first issue on July 8, 1889 through the December 31st issue of 17 years ago. (One year of additional content from 17 years ago is added annually.) Reproduces the complete full text of every issue in its original printed form, in full page images digitized from microfilm.
Note: For searchable access to the full text of the Wall Street Journal from 1995 to the present, use ABI/INFORM. For combined searchable access to the complete backfile from 1889 up through today's issue, use ProQuest News & Current Events.
Political Opinion Blogs
| Blog Name | Political Slant |
|---|---|
| The Corner | Conservative |
| Daily Dish | Multiple Perspectives |
| Daily Kos | Liberal |
| Huffington Post | Liberal |
| Hot Air | Conservative |
| Instapundit | Conservative |
| Little Green Footballs | Multiple Perspectives |
| Michelle Malkin | Conservative |
| Michigan Liberal | Liberal |
| The Michigan View | Conservative |
| Powerline | Conservative |
| Red State | Conservative |
| Talking Points Memo |
Liberal |
| Think Progress | Liberal |
| Townhall.com | Conservative |
Click here for a selected list of magazines and newspapers generally considered to be liberal or conservative.
Criteria
How did we put together this list? We looked at a variety of criteria:
- "Popularity" according to web ranking sites such as Technorati and ComScore Media Matrix
- Inclusion in selected academic research regarding political blogs
- Inclusion in other academic libraries' guides to political commentary
- Cited or identified by traditional news media outlets as prominent political blogs
- Our own judgement*
- Does not include blogs associated with print or "traditional" news media, with some exceptions
There is no single location to search for political commentary on a topic. You may start with Google, but how do you narrow down the hundreds of thousands of results to find those sources that are from “known” or popular conservative bloggers, say, or sort out only “credible” liberal pundits from the thousands of people who write personal blogs?
The honest answer is that there is no easy way to do this. However, in order to simplify things somewhat, we have put together the list above.
Starting Point
We make no claims that inclusion on our list means that these blogs are more “credible” than others. Nor do we claim that this list is in any way comprehensive. The authors represented here include journalists as well as average citizens who have made a name for themselves solely through their online commentary. We attempted to include blogs that are currently widely read. We recognize that this being the web, “popularity” changes from day to day, so by the time you read this our list will likely be outdated. But it gives you a place to start.
*If you have questions, please contact Scott Dennis, Shevon Desai, or Marija Freeland.
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