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Browzine
Browzine is a great tool for browsing journal articles to help with brainstorming a topic.

CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
Contains original, comprehensive reports and analysis on issues in the news.
Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window
Provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 U.S. and international newspapers. Also contains selective full text for regional U.S. newspapers. In addition, full text television and radio news transcripts are also provided.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Full text coverage of general news, business, legal, government and other topics.
Statista This link opens in a new window
Statista is one of the leading statistics companies on the internet. With a team of over 200 statisticians, database experts, analysts, and editors, Statista provides users with an innovative and intuitive tool for researching quantitative data, statistics and related information.
Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new window
Online version of the Wall Street Journal available through ProQuest.

Online Resources

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including articles, theses, books, and abstracts.

The Intercept
A news organization dedicated to holding the powerful accountable through fearless, adversarial journalism. Its in-depth investigations and analysis focus on politics, war, surveillance, corruption, the environment, technology, criminal justice, the media, and more.
New York Times Topics
Each topic page collects all the news, reference and archival information, photos, graphics, audio and video files published on topics.
Pew Research Center
A nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world.
ProCon.org
ProCon.org is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity. Our purpose is to provide resources for critical thinking and to educate without bias. We research issues that are controversial and important, and we present them in a balanced, comprehensive, straightforward, transparent, and primarily pro-con format at no charge.
Vox.com
Vox’s staff of over 100 journalists and subject-matter experts report and produce articles, videos, and podcasts to clarify the issues that matter, explore the ideas that are shaping our country and the world, and answer questions you might not even have known to ask.
NPR
An independent, nonprofit media organization that was founded on a mission to create a more informed public.