Select an editorial from a respected newspaper or journal such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Nation, the New Republic, Commentary, etc. Once you have made your choice, you need to write no more than a two-page essay that clearly identifies the key issue in your selected editorial and that outlines the public debate over the issue on which the editorial has taken a position. You should conduct research on the issue itself and on the primary positions that have been publicly debated.