Web Resources

• Columbia Journalism Review Culture Wars
  This page brings together web sites that take opposite stands on specific issues.

• Policy Online
  This site maintains directories to think tanks, advocacy group pages, government agency, industry (including trade, professional and union organizations), and business homepages, all of which contain policy statements and perspectives. A page of daily news announcements that relate to policy issues, Intellectualcapital.com, a magazine-style site with contributors representing a wide political spectrum, Issues Forum, and Issues of the Week provide responses from opinion makers on currently debated policies.

• Political Advocacy Groups
  This site maintains an alphabetical list and subject lists of all national "cause lobbyist" groups. Provides descriptions of each advocacy group and contact information.

• Politics on the Web
  This site is maintained by the Government Publications Section, University of Washington Libraries. It is an excellent entry into official government sites and information, as well as many political sites that contribute to government policy.

• Public Affairs Web
  This site works like a huge index to all aspects of American public affairs. It maintains an excellent set of "Public Service Links," which includes a directory to public action groups (PACs) organized by state, a thorough list of political party homepages, and a list of unions on the web.

• Public Agenda Online
  Public Agenda, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research organization, is devoted to public opinion, policy analysis, and citizen education. The site provides eighteen issue guides that cover topics such as crime, education, environment, immigration, and welfare.

Materials in the UW Libraries

• CQ Researcher
  Suzzallo Reference
  H35 E35
  This weekly focuses research on a specific topic, provides objective, in-depth coverage of issues, and also includes presentations of opposing viewpoints.

• CQ Weekly (Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report)
  Government Publications, Undergraduate
  JK1 C15
  This journal provides very thorough coverage of action in the U.S. Congress. Floor debates, legislation under review, hearings, voting records: if it is done in Congress, it is reported here.

• Current Issues Sourcefile
  Microform & Newspaper Collections, Suzzallo Reference, Undergraduate
  Local Area Network Full Text database
  This full text database contains thousands of position briefs, articles and position statements from hundreds of special interest groups, research organizations and government agencies, concerning a wide range of current issues. It is mounted on the Suzzallo local area network (lan).

• The Economist
  Suzzallo Peridicals
  330.5
  EC
  One of the preeminent international news weeklies, The Economist brings a global perspective to major issues.

• Editorials on File
  Suzzallo Reference Index/Abstracts Section
  D410 E35
  This print resource selects and reprints editorials and opinion pieces from major U.S. news sources and organizes them so that opposing views on hot issues are presented together. Updated regularly.

• National Journal
  Suzzallo Periodicals
  JK1 N38
  One of the country's best known non-partison magazines, this weekly covers politics and policy with a special emphasis on the executive branch.

• New Perspective Quarterly: NPQ
  Suzzallo Periodicals
  E839.5 N379
  Published by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, the journal organizes each issue around a central theme. The theme is then examined by a diverse group of scholars and well known authorities. NPQ is highly regarded by most media experts as providing one of the most reliable, interesting and fair-minded forums of political discussion.

• Newsweek
  Suzzallo Periodicals and Undergraduate Periodicals
  051 NW
  Newsweek, one of the three standard news weeklies published in the U.S., attempts to report the major political, social and cultural stories of the day in a nonpartisan manner. Its strong suit is graphics, particularly its photographs.

• Time
  Suzzallo Periodicals and Undergraduate Periodicals
  051 TI
  The second of the popular news weeklies, Time attempts to be "free of any consistent tendency by presenting varied and occasionally conflicting points of view. Sidebars reporting an alternative perspective are sometimes published along side major articles.

• U.S. News and World Report
  Suzzallo Periodicals and Undergraduate Periodicals
  071 UNI
  Considered by some to be the most objective of the three major news weeklies in the U.S., this periodical attempts to publish more in-depth, thoughtful reporting than its direct competition.