Potential 2024-5 LD Resolutions Released

September/October 2024

Resolved: The United States ought to adopt carbon pricing.
Available now: Climate files | Essay | Inflation DA

Resolved: The United States ought to substantially increase restrictions on the Commander in Chief powers of the President of the United States.

Resolved: The United States ought to require that workers receive a living wage.
   Inflation DA

November/December 2024

Resolved: The United States ought to substantially increase incentives for nuclear power production.
Available now: Essay | File updated through July 2023| SMRs updated through May 2024

Resolved: The United States ought to adopt a wealth tax.

Resolved: The Commonwealth of Australia ought to establish an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.

January/February 2025

Resolved: The United States ought to formally recognize one or more of the following: Iraqi Kurdistan, the Republic of China, the Republic of Somaliland.

Resolved: The United States ought to remove all or nearly all of its economic sanctions on one or more of the following: Islamic Republic of Iran, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
Available now: General Essay | general sanctions good & bad files |  Essay: Shunning, Sanctions, and Norms | Country Essays: Iran; Korea, Venezuela

Resolved: The United States ought to become party to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and/or the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. 

March/April 2025

Resolved: Social media ought to be regulated as a public utility.

Resolved: The development of Artificial General Intelligence is immoral
Available now: AI files updated through today | Essay: Understanding AI | Essay: AI & Low Wage Labor | Essay: AI & Climate Change

Resolved: The United States ought to ban non-therapeutic human genetic engineering.

Nationals 2025

Resolved: Violent revolution is a just response to political oppression.

Resolved: A just society ought to prefer social ownership to private ownership.

Resolved: The United States ought to enact electoral reform that replaces the plurality voting system in federal elections.