What are good topics for a current event debate?

Should same-sex couples have full marriage rights?

Should the work-week be reduced to 35 or even 30 hours a week, and put all the unemployed people back to work, and let everybody have a job at the reduced hours?

You’ll make less taxable income, but less of your money will go to taxes to pay for welfare and unemployment benefits, so your after-tax income will still be roughly the same while working less hours.

Rising inflation and the stagnantion of working wages. My dad is acting like bread is going to cost 5 or more bucks in the next few years and the domino effect it will have on the economy.

That depends if you want international current event of local current event?
“When do you ever walk out of an interview, whether you are the host or the interviewee?” Is walking like civil disobedience, or not?” See the The View interview with Bill O’Riely 2 weeks or so ago. Was Barbara Walters (the moderator) the wrong one for failing to say something to O’Riely prevent Joy and Whoopie from having to walk out?”

Would ending the ban on gays serving openly in the military strengthen or weaken it?

When the government cuts spending, what should be cut and what should not be cut?

How about the controversial public health care system? Assuming you live in USA

I live in Chile, so the topic doesn’t have to be limited to the U.S.

@radioethiopia – So tell us what some of the hot issues and scandals are in Chile these days…

You could discuss safety issues with respect to miners? Or perhaps the government’s response? How about the major gap between rich and poor?

There isn’t precisely a major gap between rich and poor as compared to other countries

Evolution vs Creationism

it never get’s old :)

If right and wrong is subjective.