Weekly Briefs
Every Tuesday, the Red Folder publishes a general and a debate weekly brief. Read them here.
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General Weekly Briefs
General Weekly Briefs
With 4 domestic and 4 international news briefs published every week, weekly briefs are perfect for understanding current events in a condensed manner for Congress, Extemporaneous Speaking, and more general audiences. Tailored analyses for Extemp and questions for practice rounds are attached to the bottom of each brief, including useful details like attention-getting devices, substructure and strategy.
New York City’s heading into what feels like its most important election in years. People are dealing with a range of local issues—sky-high rents, changing neighborhoods, concerns about crime, and the pandemic’s lingering aftermath...
With the US federal government still shut down, the consequences are starting to afflict everyone—economists, business owners and ordinary families. Yet, the battle over the budget hasn’t slowed...
Democratic Arizona Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva has not yet been sworn into office despite having been elected more than a month ago. Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is refusing to perform the ceremony while the shutdown continues...
The 2025 elections are set to make waves across the United States, with closely watched gubernatorial contests in New Jersey and Virginia, as well as a hotly contested mayoral race in New York City. These races, depending on how they go, could shape national policy and politics for years to come...
Debate Weekly Briefs
Debate Weekly Briefs
We publish 3 articles every other week that are relevant to the debate topics for Public Forum, Lincoln-Douglas, and Policy Debate. Debate briefs provide and analyze arguments/evidence about the current topic, add supporting sources and weighing, explain how current events impact discourse surrounding a debate topic, and include cards when available. Perfect for the debater looking for topic-specific ideas and prep.
More likely, you will hit people who ask, “Restoring the natural processes of an ecosystem to what?”
With many resolutional affirmatives either aiming to deter or cooperate with Russia, Russian military actions almost always provide (non)uniqueness or demonstrate harms of United States federal inaction. Read about recent Russian provocations and their impact on the CX debate.
Government policies which mandate technology companies to provide lawful access to encrypted communications, often known not-so-affectionately in the cybersecurity world as “backdoors,” are viewed fairly negatively by most experts...
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