Need help developing a balanced viewpoint on today’s most debated social issues? Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints is an excellent online resource with 20,000 pro/con viewpoints, approximately 19,000 reference articles, interactive maps, infographics, and more to help tackle the toughest debates. They offer updated viewpoints and topic overviews ranging from artificial intelligence to congressional term limits to yearly national debate topics, like economic inequality.
One of the key advantages of Opposing Viewpoints is its commitment to providing unbiased and expert sources in a variety of multimedia formats like full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites. Informed and differing viewpoints, with the data to support them, will help learners develop critical-thinking skills, draw their own conclusions, and prepare them to argue any side of the issue.
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