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In the last 25 years, charter schools have become a highly sought-after alternative to traditional public education. Between 2004 and 2014 alone, enrollment increased from less than 1 million to 2.5 million students. Have charter schools lived up to their promise?

Watch the full debate and cast your vote here: http://bit.ly/robert-rosenkranz-charter-schools

Proponents say that government has an important role to play in launching innovation via strategic investment, and its support helps American companies thrive. Do we need subsidies, or is this corporate welfare?

For many, a belief in God provides the only answer to such existential inquiries as, “How did we get here?” and “What is our purpose?”

In this Intelligence Squared US​ debate, debaters took on this highly divisive topic questioning whether science and religion can coexist with a debate on the motion, “Science Refutes God.”

Since the Syrian Civil War began in 2011, more than 4 million Syrians have fled the country, creating the greatest refugee crisis since World War II. 

After the US government issued a new set of hydraulic fracturing safety mandates aimed at protecting groundwater on federal and tribal lands in 2015, the question still remains today:

Despite decades of prosperity, recent trends have indicated that China’s economy may be weakening. 

Can China's brand of state-directed capitalism overcome rampant corruption and the threat of growing inequality, or will the American model of innovation and free markets prevail? 

When wealthy American Walter Palmer killed Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe last year, the practice of hunting itself came under heavy fire from those who condemned it as a senseless destruction of nature. Are hunters truly conservationists?

With executive orders, administrative regulations, creative interpretations of federal statutes, and executive agreements with other nations, it may seem that the President, not Congress, is, in effect, wielding the most potent legislative power.

Is Congress still the most powerful branch, or is this the era of the imperial presidency? Has the President usurped Congress's legislative power?