89.0 Economy (Rated 23 times)

The economy of the United States is the largest national economy in the world in both actual dollars and by Purchasing Power Parity. Its nominal gross domestic product...

84.8 North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Program (Rated 4 times)

North Korea (officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea or DPRK) is claimed to have an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction, and claims to possess nuclear ...

84.2 US Dependency on Foreign Oil (Rated 9 times)

US energy independence is a stated goal of those who believe that the North American nations - the USA, Canada and Mexico - must reduce their reliance on oil purchased...

78.2 Legality of Cannibis (Rated 96 times)

While more than a dozen US states have decriminalised possession or personal use of cannabis, it is illegal under the federal Controlled Substances Act of 1970. In thi...

76.4 Animal rights (Rated 12 times)

Animal rights, also referred to as animal liberation, is the idea that the most basic interests of animals should be afforded the same consideration as the similar int...

72.2 Operation Iraqi Freedom (Rated 5 times)

The Iraq War or the Occupation of Iraq, referred to by the U.S. military as Operation Iraqi Freedom, is an ongoing military campaign which began on March 20, 2003 with...

70.8 Teenage pregnancy (Rated 4 times)

Teenage pregnancy is defined as a teenaged or underage girl (usually within the ages of 13–19) becoming pregnant. The term in everyday speech usually refers to women w...

67.4 Net neutrality (Rated 11 times)

Network neutrality (also net neutrality, Internet neutrality) is a principle proposed for residential broadband networks and potentially for all networks. A neutral br...

66.0 Capital punishment (Rated 3 times)

Capital punishment in the United States varies by jurisdiction and is applied rarely, in practice only for aggravated murder and even more rarely for felony murder or ...

65.7 Internet privacy (Rated 3 times)

Internet privacy consists of privacy over the media of the Internet: the ability to control what information one reveals about oneself over the Internet, and to contro...

63.8 Health care (Rated 10 times)

Health care in the United States is provided by many separate legal entities. Health care facilities are largely owned and operated by the private sector. Health insur...

61.5 Social Security (Rated 8 times)

Social Security in the United States currently refers to the federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program. The original Social Security Act (1...

58.0 Euthanasia (Rated 5 times)

Euthanasia is illegal in most of the United States. Attempts to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide resulted in ballot initiatives and "legislation bills" within ...

30.6 Separation of church and state (Rated 9 times)

Separation of church and state is a political and legal doctrine that government and religious institutions are to be kept separate and independent from each other. Th...

28.2 Prostitition (Rated 4 times)

In the United States, each state has the power to decide whether or not prostitution is legal in that state or part of that state. In all but two U.S. states (Nevada a...

20.8 Peanut Butter in Schools (Rated 11 times)

A friend's son goes to a public school in the Lehigh Valley where his entire class has been declared a no-peanut zone because one child in the class has a peanut aller...

14.2 Environment (Rated 15 times)

The United States is the second largest emitter, after China, of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels. The energy policy of the United States is widely deba...

3.3 Affirmative action (Rated 10 times)

The terms affirmative action and positive action refer to policies that take race, ethnicity, or gender into consideration in an attempt to promote equal opportunity o...

1.0 Poverty (Rated 3 times)

The most common measure of poverty in the United States is the "poverty threshold" set by the U.S. government. This measure recognizes poverty as a lack of those goods...