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Issues: Understanding Conflict and Society This link opens in a new window
Background information, primary sources, and perspectives essays providing the complete historical background and contemporary status of each issue with supporting facts, figures, and timelines.
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Opposing Viewpoints in Context This link opens in a new window
A complete overview of today's most pressing social issues, covering the most-studied events and current information. It includes viewpoint essays, primary documents, articles from reference books, newspaper and magazine articles, and journal content, as well as streaming video and audio.
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CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
Covers important contemporary issues. Full-length articles include an overview, historical background, chronology, pro/con feature, plus resources for additional research.
To cite in NoodleTools: +Create New Source | Where is it? Database | What is it? Reference Source | URL is stable

American Civil Liberties Union
The ACLU has evolved from a small group of idealists into the nation’s premier defender of the rights enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.