Current Event Persuasive Topics

Posted by Naomi Rockler-Gladen Mar 22, 2007

If you're looking for persuasive topics for speeches or term papers, one great place to look is in the newspaper. Current events make great topics because they are timely and haven't had time to become tired topics.

As promised, here are a list of persuasive topics based on current events in March 2007. (Look here for the January/February 2007 list.) Most of these are U.S. related topics.

• The U.S. troop escalation in Iraq: is it working?
• The death of Anna Nicole Smith and the media circus surrounding her death
• U.S. Attorney Alberto Gonzales and the scandal surrounding the firing of federal judges
• Vice President Dick Cheney, Scooter Libby, and the Valerie Plume CIA-leak scandal
• The uproar surrounding Ann Coulter's comment that presidential candidate John Edwards is a "faggot"
• The 2008 presidential candidates
• Global warming and the new research on this topic
• Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth": do you agree with Gore's arguments?
• State requirements that girls must receive the HPV vaccine
• Nuclear proliferation talks surrounding North Korea
• France's extradition treaty with China, which is controversial because China has the death penalty and France does not
• Mine safety issues in Russia
• The issue of Iraqi refugees
• The Israeli boycott of the new Palestinian government

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