Updated annually, this best-selling, debate-style reader examines the most timely, important, and provocative issues in American politics.   This edition draws students into the key topics that have made headlines and affected our political system during 2007 and are likely to affect our daily lives in 2008.

Designed to get students engaged and thinking about our political system, the topics featured in You Decide! have been selected for their currency, importance, and human interest.  The pieces, arguing various sides of a given issue, come from recent journals, congressional hearings, think tanks, and periodicals.  You Decide! is available at no extra charge when ordered packaged with any Longman American government textbook.