Extemp Questions 2020 July - the I promise I really am going to try to write less COVID questions set

• What comes next for the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong?
• Is the rift between the US and the EU widening?
• Is Chief Justice John Roberts undermining the legitimacy of the Supreme Court?
• Has economic inequality worsened the damage from COVID-19 in the US?
• How long will it take for the EU economies to recover from COVID?
• Can John Roberts successfully insulate the Supreme Court from American’s growing partisan polarization?
• Where will America’s future jobs growth come from?
• Will access to childcare limit Americas economic recovery?
• How important is the VP pick for the success of Joe Biden’s campaign?
• When will the American public get to see Trump’s tax returns?
• Is the Trump Administration’s handling of COVID-19 a failure?
• What comes next for the Black Lives Matter movement?
• Has the Paycheck Protection Program been successful?
• Should Congress be providing more adi to low-income households?
• What steps should Congress take to mitigate the long-term economic impacts of COVID-19?
• Can America’s law enforcement agencies find a solution to the “going dark” problem posed by modern digital encryption?
• Have we reached the end of American exceptionalism?
• Has political partisanship made the damage from the Coronavirus significantly worse?
• Should the federal government cut funding to schools that don’t reopen in the fall?
• Should Congress take action to expand mail-in voting for the 2020 General Election?
• What role should companies play in the fight for social justice?
• Can Trump get a legislative solution for DACA?
• Are African nations improving in their handling of government corruption?
• Is the Coronavirus pandemic providing cover for power grabs by authoritarian regimes around the world?
• Will American schools be able to reopen safely in the fall?
• Are suburban voters abandoning the Republican Party?
• Has the politics around COVID caused unnecessary American deaths?
• Is China on track to become a global peer competitor to the US?
• Is more government regulation of social media companies necessary?
• What more should the international community do to condemn China’s treatment of the Uighurs?
• Are human rights conditions in China getting worse?
• Would the failure to get a trade deal with the EU be an economic catastrophe for Britain?
• Can the British government do more to help the people of Hong Kong?
• Will Orban’s pro-family policies solve Hungary’s looming demographic problems?
• What needs to change first to change American policing?
• Has the acceptance of mass surveillance become the new normal?
• Is organized crime benefitting from COVID?
• Is America headed towards a double-dip recession?
• Is online-learning because of COVID creating significant education inequalities?
• Will poor management of the COVID-19 pandemic slow the acceptance of a vaccine when it’s made available in the US?
• What can second-level global powers do to make up for shortfalls in American leadership?
• Has the Coronavirus pandemic exposed Amazon.com’s weakness as a business?
• Are there signs for a real peace on the horizon in Afghanistan?
• Has Facebook become a toxic brand?
• What does the future hold for Hong Kong’s role on the global stage?
• Is China setting up developing nations in a debt trap?
• Is the World Bank still a force for good in the developing world?
• Will US sanctions have a positive impact on China’s treatment of the Uighur population?
• Has Ethiopia’s transition to democracy reached a crisis point?
• Will the antivax movement stall the US recovery from COVID-19?