List of Intelligence Squared US Debates
| # | Date | Debate Title (Proposition) | For (before) | Against (before) | For (after) | Against (after) | For (gained) | Against (gained) |
| 1 | 9/27/2006 | "We Must Tolerate a Nuclear Iran" | ||||||
| 2 | 10/16/2006 | "Freedom of Expression Must Include the License to Offend" | ||||||
| 3 | 11/29/2006 | "A Democratically-Elected Hamas is Still a Terrorist Organization" | ||||||
| 4 | 12/13/2006 | "Hollywood has Fueled Anti-Americanism Abroad" | ||||||
| 5 | 2/7/2007 | "America is Too Damn Religious" | ||||||
| 6 | 3/14/2007 | "Global Warming is Not a Crisis" | ||||||
| 7 | 4/18/2007 | "Better More Domestic Surveillance Than Another 9/11" | ||||||
| 8 | 5/16/2007 | "Beware the Dragon: A Booming China Spells Trouble for America" | ||||||
| 9 | 9/18/2007 | "Spreading Democracy in the Middle East is a Bad Idea" | ||||||
| 10 | 10/9/2007 | "Let's Stop Welcoming Undocumented Immigrants" | ||||||
| 11 | 10/30/2007 | "Russia is Becoming Our Enemy Again" | ||||||
| 12 | 11/13/2007 | "It's Time to End Affirmative Action" | ||||||
| 13 | 12/4/2007 | "Aid to Africa is Doing More Harm Than Good" | ||||||
| 14 | 1/15/2008 | "We Should Accept Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Competitive Sports" | ||||||
| 15 | 2/12/2008 | "America Should be the World's Policeman" | ||||||
| 16 | 3/11/2008 | "Tough Interrogation of Terror Suspects is Necessary" | ||||||
| 17 | 4/15/2008 | "Islam is Dominated By Radicals" | ||||||
| 18 | 5/13/2008 | "We Should Legalize the Market for Human Organs" | ||||||
| 19 | 9/16/2008 | "Universal Health Coverage Should be the Federal Government's Responsibility" | ||||||
| 20 | 10/7/2008 | "America is Finally Winning the War in Iraq" | ||||||
| 21 | 10/28/2008 | "Guns Reduce Crime" | ||||||
| 22 | 11/18/2008 | "Google Violates its 'Don't Be Evil' Motto" | ||||||
| 23 | 12/2/2008 | "Bush 43 is the Worst President of the Last 50 Years" | ||||||
| 24 | 1/13/2009 | "Major Reductions in Carbon Emissions are Not Worth the Money" | ||||||
| 25 | 2/3/2009 | "The Art Market is Less Ethical than the Stock Market" | ||||||
| 26 | 3/17/2009 | "Blame Washington More Than Wall Street for the Financial Crisis" | ||||||
| 27 | 4/21/2009 | "It's Wrong To Pay For Sex" | ||||||
| 28 | 5/12/2009 | "Diplomacy With Iran Is Going Nowhere" | ||||||
| 29 | 9/21/2009 | "Buy American/Hire American Policies Will Backfire" | ||||||
| 30 | 10/6/2009 | "America Cannot And Will Not Succeed In Afghanistan/Pakistan" | ||||||
| 31 | 10/27/2009 | "Good Riddance To Mainstream Media" | ||||||
| 32 | 11/16/2009 | "Obama's Economic Policies Are Working Effectively" | ||||||
| 33 | 12/1/2009 | "America Is To Blame For Mexico's Drug War" | ||||||
| 34 | 1/19/2010 | "California Is The First Failed State" | ||||||
| 35 | 2/9/2010 | "The U.S. Should Step Back From Its Special Relationship With Israel" | ||||||
| 36 | 3/16/2010 | "Don't Blame Teachers Unions For Our Failing Schools" | ||||||
| 37 | 4/13/2010 | "Organic Food Is Marketing Hype" | ||||||
| 38 | 5/11/2010 | "Obama's Foreign Policy Spells America's Decline" | ||||||
| 39 | 6/8/2010 | "The Cyber War Threat Has Been Grossly Exaggerated" | ||||||
| 40 | 9/14/2010 | "Treat Terrorists Like Enemy Combatants, Not Criminals" | ||||||
| 41 | 10/6/2010 | "Islam Is A Religion Of Peace" | ||||||
| 42 | 10/26/2010 | "Big Government Is Stifling The American Spirit" | ||||||
| 43 | 11/10/2010 | "Afghanistan Is A Lost Cause" | ||||||
| 44 | 11/22/2010 | "U.S. Airports Should Use Racial And Religious Profiling" | ||||||
| 45 | 1/11/2011 | "Repeal Obamacare " | ||||||
| 46 | 2/15/2011 | "The Two-Party System Is Making America Ungovernable" | ||||||
| 47 | 3/8/2011 | "Clean Energy Can Drive America's Economic Recovery" | ||||||
| 48 | 4/5/2011 | "It's Time To Clip America's Global Wings" | ||||||
| 49 | 5/3/2011 | "Don't Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses" | ||||||
| 50 | 6/8/2011 | "Freedom of the Press Does Not Extend To State Secrets" | ||||||
| 51 | 9/7/2011 | "It's Time To End The War On Terror" | ||||||
| 52 | 9/20/2011 | "Men Are Finished" | ||||||
| 53 | 10/4/2011 | "Grandma's Benefits Imperil Junior's Future" | ||||||
| 54 | 10/12/2011 | "Too Many Kids Go To College" | ||||||
| 55 | 10/25/2011 | "Congress Should Pass Obama's Jobs Plan - Piece by Piece " | ||||||
| 56 | 11/15/2011 | "The World Would Be Better Off Without Religion " | ||||||
| 57 | 1/10/2012 | "The U.N. Should Admit Palestine As A Full Member State " | ||||||
| 58 | 2/6/2012 | "Obesity Is The Government's Business " | ||||||
| 59 | 3/13/2012 | "China Does Capitalism Better Than America " | ||||||
| 60 | 4/17/2012 | "When It Comes To Politics, The Internet Is Closing Our Minds" | ||||||
| 61 | 5/18/2012 | "Ban College Football" | ||||||
| 62 | 6/30/2012 | "No Fracking Way: The Natural Gas Boom Is Doing More Harm Than Good" | ||||||
| 63 | 9/13/2012 | "Two Cheers for Super PACs: Money in Politics is Still Over-regulated " | ||||||
| 64 | 10/3/2012 | "Better Elected Islamists Than Dictators " | ||||||
| 65 | 10/10/2012 | "Ration End-Of-Life Care " | ||||||
| 66 | 10/23/2012 | "The Rich Are Taxed Enough " | ||||||
| 67 | 11/14/2012 | "Legalize Drugs " | ||||||
| 68 | 12/5/2012 | "Science Refutes God" | ||||||
| 69 | 1/16/2013 | "Israel Can Live With a Nuclear Iran" | ||||||
| 70 | 2/13/2013 | "Prohibit Genetically Engineered Babies" | ||||||
| 71 | 3/13/2013 | "America Doesn't Need A Strong Dollar Policy" | ||||||
| 72 | 4/3/2013 | "Abolish The Minimum Wage " | ||||||
| 73 | 4/17/2013 | "The GOP Must Seize The Center Or Die" | ||||||
| 74 | 5/8/2013 | "The FDA's Caution Is Hazardous To Our Health" | ||||||
| 75 | 6/19/2013 | "Cutting the Pentagon's Budget is a Gift To Our Enemies" | ||||||
| 76 | 8/9/2013 | "The U.S. Has No Dog In The Fight In Syria " | ||||||
| 77 | 9/10/2013 | "The U.S. Drone Program is Fatally Flawed " | ||||||
| 78 | 10/16/2013 | "Break Up The Big Banks" | ||||||
| 79 | 10/18/2013 | "For A Better Future, Live In A Red State" | ||||||
| 80 | 10/30/2013 | "Let Anyone Take A Job Anywhere" | ||||||
| 81 | 11/14/2013 | "The Constitutional Right To Bear Arms Has Outlived Its Usefulness" | ||||||
| 82 | 11/20/2013 | "Spy On Me, I'd Rather Be Safe" | ||||||
| 83 | 12/4/2013 | "Don't Eat Anything With A Face" | ||||||
| 84 | 1/15/2014 | "Obamacare Is Now Beyond Rescue" | ||||||
| 85 | 2/12/2014 | "Snowden Was Justified" | ||||||
| 86 | 2/27/2014 | "Affirmative Action On Campus Does More Harm Than Good" | ||||||
| 87 | 3/5/2014 | "The President Has Constitutional Power To Target And Kill U.S. Citizens Abroad" | ||||||
| 88 | 3/12/2014 | "Russia Is A Marginal Power" | ||||||
| 89 | 4/2/2014 | "More Clicks, Fewer Bricks: The Lecture Hall Is Obsolete" | ||||||
| 90 | 4/9/2014 | "Millennials Don't Stand A Chance " | ||||||
| 91 | 5/7/2014 | "Death Is Not Final" | ||||||
| 92 | 6/26/2014 | "Individuals and organizations have a constitutional right to unlimited spending on their own political speech" | ||||||
| 93 | 9/9/2014 | "Embrace The Common Core" | ||||||
| 94 | 9/30/2014 | "Flexing America's Muscles In The Middle East Will Make Things Worse" | ||||||
| 95 | 10/7/2014 | "Mass Collection of U.S. Phone Records Violates the Fourth Amendment" | ||||||
| 96 | 10/22/2014 | "Income Inequality Impairs The American Dream Of Upward Mobility" | ||||||
| 97 | 11/13/2014 | "Legalize Assisted Suicide" | ||||||
| 98 | 12/3/2014 | "Genetically Modify Food" | ||||||
| 99 | 1/15/2015 | "Amazon Is The Reader's Friend" | ||||||
| 100 | 2/11/2015 | "Declinists Be Damned: Bet on America" | ||||||
| 101 | 2/24/2015 | "Liberals Are Stifling Intellectual Diversity On Campus" | ||||||
| 102 | 3/11/2015 | "The U.S. Should Adopt the 'Right to Be Forgotten' Online" | ||||||
| 103 | 3/31/2015 | "The President Has Exceeded His Constitutional Authority by Waging War Without Congressional Authorization " | ||||||
| 104 | 4/15/2015 | "Abolish the Death Penalty" | ||||||
| 105 | 5/13/2015 | "Smart Technology Is Making Us Dumb"[1] | ||||||
| 106 | 5/26/2015 | "Obama's Iran Deal Is Good For America" | ||||||
| 107 | 6/2/2015 | "The Equal Protection Clause Does Not Require States To License Same-Sex Marriages"[2] | ||||||
| 108 | 8/19/2015 | "Containment Is Not Enough: ISIS Must Be Defeated" | ||||||
| 109 | 10/19/2015 | "China and the U.S. Are Long-term Enemies" | ||||||
| 110 | 10/26/2015 | "Courts, Not Campuses, Should Decide Sexual Assault Cases" | ||||||
| 111 | 11/2/2015 | "Raise the Federal Gas Tax to Fund Infrastructure" | ||||||
| 112 | 11/10/2015 | "College Students Should Be Allowed to Take Smart Drugs" | ||||||
| 113 | 11/24/2015 | "Central Banks Can Print Prosperity" | ||||||
| 114 | 12/2/2015 | "U.S. Prosecutors Have Too Much Power" | ||||||
| 115 | 12/8/2015 | "The Equal Protection Clause Forbids Racial Preferences in State University Admissions" | ||||||
| 116 | 1/20/2016 | "The U.S. Should Let In 100,000 Syrian Refugees" | ||||||
| 117 | 2/8/2016 | "Lifespans Are Long Enough" | ||||||
| 118 | 3/7/2016 | "Free Speech Is Threatened on Campus" | ||||||
| 119 | 3/14/2016 | "Don't Trust the Promise of Artificial Intelligence" | ||||||
| 120 | 4/11/2016 | "Eliminate Corporate Subsidies" | ||||||
| 121 | 5/9/2016 | "Hunters Conserve Wildlife" | ||||||
| 122 | 9/14/2016 | "Climate Change: The EPA Has Gone Overboard" | ||||||
| 123 | 9/16/2016 | "Blame the Elites for the Trump Phenomenon" | ||||||
| 124 | 10/16/2016 | "Blame Big Pharma for Out-of-Control Health Care Costs" | ||||||
| 125 | 10/28/2016 | "Give Undocumented Immigrants a Path to Citizenship" | ||||||
| 126 | 11/14/2016 | "Gerrymandering Is Destroying the Political Center" | ||||||
| 127 | 11/29/2016 | "Obama’s Foreign Policy Is a Failure" | ||||||
| 128 | 12/7/2016 | "Call a Convention to Amend the Constitution" | ||||||
| 129 | 1/11/2017 | "Policing is Radically Biased" | ||||||
| 130 | 2/1/2017 | "Give Trump a Chance" | ||||||
| 131 | 2/8/2017 | "The Special U.S.-Saudi Relationship has Outlived its Usefulness" | ||||||
| 132 | 3/1/2017 | "Charter Schools Are Overrated" | ||||||
| 133 | 3/22/2017 | "The Universal Basic Income Is The Safety Net Of The Future" | ||||||
| 134 | 4/6/2017 | "Long Live Walmart" | ||||||
| 135 | 4/24/2017 | "Trump's First 100 Days" | ||||||
| 136 | 5/10/2017 | "Video Games Will Makes Us Smarter" | ||||||
| 137 | 6/6/2017 | "Debating the Constitution: Technology and Privacy" | ||||||
| 138 | 9/13/2017 | "Unresolved: Face-Off with China" | ||||||
| 139 | 9/28/2017 | "The U.S. Health Care System Is Terminally Broken" | 42% | 34% | 45% | 51% | 3% | 17% |
| 140 | 10/3/2017 | "Western Democracy Is Threatening Suicide" | 41% | 31% | 57% | 37% | 16% | 6% |
| 141 | 10/24/2017 | "Pay College Athletes" | 42% | 33% | 60% | 32% | 18% | -1% |
| 142 | 12/7/2017 | "Liberals Hold the Moral High Ground" | 48% | 22% | 43% | 39% | -5% | 17% |
| 143 | 1/16/2018 | "Unresolved: America's Economic Outlook" | ||||||
| "The GOP Tax Reform Bill Will Improve Our Outlook For Growth" | 37% | 63% | 22% | 78% | -15% | 15% | ||
| "Deregulation Is Driving The Booming Economy" | 27% | 73% | 16% | 84% | -11% | 11% | ||
| "The Stock Market Is Too High" | 35% | 65% | 50% | 50% | 15% | -15% | ||
| 144 | 2/6/2018 | "Swipe Left: Dating Apps Have Killed Romance" | 39% | 37% | 30% | 66% | -9% | 29% |
| 145 | 3/9/2018 | "Humanitarian Intervention Does More Harm Than Good" | 30% | 51% | 34% | 59% | 4% | 8% |
| 146 | 3/27/2018 | "The More We Evolve, The Less We Need God" | 40% | 31% | 53% | 32% | 13% | 1% |
| 147 | 4/17/2018 | "Preserve Net Neutrality: All Data is Created Equal" | 60% | 23% | 60% | 31% | 0% | 8% |
| 148 | 4/21/2018 | "Bitcoin Is More Than a Bubble and Here to Stay" | 39% | 38% | 25% | 68% | -14% | 30% |
| 149 | 5/2/2018 | "Negotiations Can Denuclearize North Korea" | 34% | 41% | 27% | 67% | -7% | 26% |
| 150 | 5/14/2018 | "Automation Will Crash Democracy" | 25% | 49% | 45% | 47% | 20% | -2% |
| 151 | 6/23/2018 | "Trigger Warning: Safe Spaces Are Dangerous" | 57% | 25% | 56% | 35% | -1% | 10% |
| 152 | 6/26/2018 | "Social Media Is Good for Democracy" | 36% | 46% | 34% | 63% | -2% | 17% |
| 153 | 6/28/2018 | "Globalization Has Undermined America's Working Class" | 36% | 45% | 32% | 61% | -4% | 16% |
References
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- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-06-03. Retrieved 2015-05-26.
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