# Debate Arguments Substack on popular debate arguments Page: Feed: --- ## [Extemp Practice Bank — Environment and Energy, Domestic (USX)](https://debatearguments.substack.com/p/extemp-practice-bank-environment-f3d) _2026-08-22 · Stefan Bauschard_ Prepared August 22, 2026 · 10 questions · Part 2 of 2 (pairs with the international bank) Forms: 2 What · 2 Should · 2 Will/Can · 2 Is/Are · 2 How/Did ## [Extemp Practice Bank — Environment and Energy, International (IX)](https://debatearguments.substack.com/p/extemp-practice-bank-environment) _2026-08-22 · Stefan Bauschard_ Prepared August 22, 2026 · 10 questions · Part 1 of 2 (domestic USX bank to follow) Forms: 2 What · 2 Should · 2 Will/Can · 2 Is/Are · 2 How/Did ## [Extemp Practice Bank — Asia (IX)](https://debatearguments.substack.com/p/extemp-practice-bank-asia-ix) _2026-08-22 · Stefan Bauschard_ Prepared August 22, 2026 · 10 questions · Window: the 2026 cycle, with recent anchors on every question Forms: 2 What · 2 Should · 2 Will/Can · 2 Is/Are · 2 How/Did ## [Extemp Practice Bank — United States 2026 Elections (USX)](https://debatearguments.substack.com/p/extemp-practice-bank-united-states) _2026-08-22 · Stefan Bauschard_ Prepared August 22, 2026 · 10 questions · 73 days to Election Day (November 3) Forms: 2 What · 2 Should · 2 Will/Can · 2 Is/Are · 2 How/Did ## [Extemp Practice -- Science & Technology](https://debatearguments.substack.com/p/extemp-practice-science-and-technology) _2026-08-22 · Stefan Bauschard_ Prepared August 22, 2026 · 10 questions · 5 USX / 5 IX, labeled per question · Window: stories live since late February 2026 Forms: 2 What · 2 Should · 2 Will/Can · 2 Is/Are · 2 How/Did ## [Extemp Practice Bank — Europe (IX)](https://debatearguments.substack.com/p/extemp-practice-bank-europe-ix) _2026-08-22 · Stefan Bauschard_ Prepared August 21, 2026 · 10 questions · 10 sources each · Window: stories live since late May 2026 Forms: 2 What · 2 Should · 2 Will/Can · 2 Is/Are · 2 How/DidPrepared August 21, 2026 · 10 questions ## [Scouting Report: September-October LD (Space Colonization) to Date](https://debatearguments.substack.com/p/scouting-report-september-october) _2026-08-21 · Stefan Bauschard_ The scouting file to date (8-21-26) runs to roughly 460 pages and about 440 tagged arguments, organized Aff / Neg / Theory. ## [Full Catalog + 100 Pg AI & Data Centers Update: The China Arg is BS, Students Protest Data Centers, AGI to Replace White Collar Work, AI Helps Cure Cancer](https://debatearguments.substack.com/p/full-catalog-100-pg-ai-and-data-centers) _2026-08-20 · Stefan Bauschard_ DC Companies Key to Grid Upgrades | AGI Collapses Cap | Midterms Links | Economy Debate | AI Cancer Breakthrough | Superhuman Robots | ## [Texas UIL LD Essay: Nuclear Energy and Environmental Stewardship](https://debatearguments.substack.com/p/texas-uil-ld-essay-nuclear-energy) _2026-08-15 · Stefan Bauschard_ All DebateUS Resources are here, including ## [Winning the DeDevelopment Argument](https://debatearguments.substack.com/p/winning-the-dedevelopment-argument) _2026-08-12 · Stefan Bauschard_ A coaching essay on the de-development / degrowth impact turn ## [Buy once, keep names forever (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/p7xkqC2dkt7d) _2026-08-12 · **Sponsored**_ Permanent registry: one-time $5 endings, $2 names, DNS hosting and feed sites. ## [Full DebateUS Resources -- Instructional Resources & Files](https://debatearguments.substack.com/p/full-debateus-resources-instructional) _2026-08-10 · Stefan Bauschard_ Download ## [Policy Debate Camp Arguments Explained: All 66](https://debatearguments.substack.com/p/policy-debate-camp-arguments-explained) _2026-08-10 · Stefan Bauschard_ This is the comprehensive overview of essays on the arguments on the health care topic. ## [AGI Within 1-4 Years: Suppress AI Advances with a Moratorium or Develop Self-Awareness and Ethical I-Thou AI? 2 Approaches, 2 Sides](https://debatearguments.substack.com/p/agi-within-1-4-years-suppress-ai) _2026-08-05 · Stefan Bauschard_ With AI already starting to act on its own to hack into systems when given goals and AGI (--\>ASI) on the immediate horizon (1-4 years), the question becomes, how can we manage an AI that is so much smarter than us and could kill all of us? ## [Big Questions Technology Topic: A Century of Change in 10 Years is Coming (250 page release)](https://debatearguments.substack.com/p/big-questions-technology-topic-a) _2026-08-04 · Stefan Bauschard_ This year’s Big Questions resolution asks whether technology has already outrun our ethics. It’s the most alive question in the world — and, unusually, both sides are winnable. ## [Neg Manufacturing Contention Added for the Data Centers Topic | Data Centers Topic Class](https://debatearguments.substack.com/p/neg-manufacturing-contention-added) _2026-08-03 · Stefan Bauschard_ I'm offering an intro class that will run from 8:30-10pm ET on Tuesday, August 4th. ## [September-October PF & LD Topics Released](https://debatearguments.substack.com/p/september-october-pf-and-ld-topics) _2026-08-02 · Stefan Bauschard_ September-October Resolution: Resolved: The United States federal government should enact a moratorium on hyperscale data center construction. ## [The Afropessimism Kritik (Northwestern)](https://debatearguments.substack.com/p/the-afropessimism-kritik-northwestern) _2026-08-01 · Stefan Bauschard_ On a topic where nearly every affirmative is an access-and-inclusion aff — Resolved: The United States federal government should establish national health insurance in the United States — this is the kritik of the year. ## [The Prisons Aff (Northwestern 2026)](https://debatearguments.substack.com/p/the-prisons-aff-northwestern-2026) _2026-08-01 · Stefan Bauschard_ The Northwestern file gives you a plan — the United States federal government should establish national health insurance for incarcerated individuals in the United States — one advantage, a framing contention, 2AC blocks against three topicality violations, process counterplans, the economy, politics, and midterms disadvantages, and the capitalism and Afropessimism kritiks.