Research Tools

CRS & CBO (Research & Budgeting Resources)

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Please note NSDA rules for generative artificial intelligence (AI): it should not be cited as a source; while generative AI may be used to guide students to articles, ideas, and sources, the original source of any quoted or paraphrased evidence must be available if requested.

CRS & CBO (Research & Budgeting Resources)

Congressional Research Service Reports

Custom Google Search

EveryCRS Report Search

FAS' CRS Report Repository

Cornell Library CRS Report Search

Congressional Budget Office

Exploring & Understanding Statistics

Data.gov

U.S. Census

Pitch Interactive: Visualizing Data

Making Data Meaningful: Presenting Stats (UN)

Periscopic: Visualizing Data

Our World in Data (visualizing)

Think Tanks

Pew Research Center

50 Most Influential Think Tanks

Public Agenda: Nonpartisan Research

Comparative Agendas (Comparing Policies Worldwide)

World Economic Forum

Harvard Think Tank Search

Annotated Think Tank List

Policy Analyses (Vanderbilt Univ.)

Georgetown University Research Guides

Fact & Bias Checking

Snopes Fact-Checking

Real News/Fake News

Media Bias Chart (AllSides)

News Literacy Project

RefDesk

FactCheck.org

Media Bias Chart (Ad Fontes)

Analysis of Ad Fontes' Media Bias Chart

Factitious Game

Government & Civics Resources

America's Founding Documents

U.S. Government Portal

National Priorities Project (Budget)

State Dept.: use menus for Policies, Regions

U.S. Government Manual

GovTrack: Tracking Legislation

Executive Power Overview

U.S. Foreign Policy Powers: Congress and the President

Breaking Defense Blog: Congressional Policies

War on the Rocks: Defense & National Security Blog

U.S. Code (Cornell Law)

FindLaw: Supreme Court Center

SCOTUSblog

Oyez (SCOTUS News/Blog)

Learn about the US Courts

Supreme Court (Univ./Chicago resources)

SCOTUS: Multiple divergent opinions example

UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights

United Nations' Development Goals

Economics

Investopedia: Economics Basics

Economics for Debaters: YouTube playlist

How Economics Works (scroll down)

Keynes vs. Hayek Economic Principles

Right to Privacy

Privacy: Cornell Legal Information Institute

ACLU: Privacy & Technology Resources (for ideas; note bias)

FindLaw: Right to Privacy-Constitutional Amendment?

California Consumer Privacy Act (inspiration-potential legislation)

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