Word: hot-button
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...Ferrik, the Humanist Chaplain at Harvard University and moderator of the discussion, pointed out that secularism was a hot-button issue in the 1960s, when even Time Magazine famously asked in a cover story at the time, “Is God Dead...
Donald preemptively defended his discussion of hot-button issues against critics who may accuse him of gratuitously sensationalizing his book. He says that no dialogue about Lincoln’s friendships is complete without Joshua Speed, whom Lincoln met in 1837 and with whom he shared everything from burlesque anecdotes to marriage ambitions to the burden of the seceding South...
...look to LOGO to be only a platform for hot-button issues like gay marriage. Sure, some shows like My Fabulous Gay Wedding can't help but be political. But Graden says that the cable newcomer won't be strident or in-your-face. "The fact that we even exist is a statement that advances the political dialogue...
...investigations are among the most politically charged espionage cases in years. Israel and the I.N.C. are longtime allies of the U.S., though the CIA has for years warned that Chalabi was not to be trusted. Allegations of Israeli espionage have been a hot-button issue since American naval intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard was imprisoned for life in 1987 for passing U.S. military secrets to Israel. Ever since the Pollard affair, Israel has publicly insisted it no longer spies on the U.S. "I can tell you here very authoritatively, very categorically, Israel does not spy on the United States," Israel...
...others increasingly believe that Okada-the scion of a Japanese retailing dynasty and a Harvard graduate-is the party's best long-term hope of presenting a unified front against the LDP. His reputation as a serious policy wonk-particularly on Japan's hot-button pension-reform issue-and his history as a committed consensus-builder, they say, have made him a potent contrast to Koizumi, whom voters have begun to think of as imperious and impulsive. "Okada is a leader for the times," says Etsushi Tanifuji, a political-science professor at Waseda University in Tokyo. "After 9/11, politics...