For this assignment, you need to 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 four-page essay (one-inch margins, double-spaced, 12-pt. type) 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.  In addition, the essay assignment requires you to present an analysis of the key positions debated on the issue you have identified in your chosen editorial. 

In your analysis, you should present a balanced evaluation of the key origins, factors and parts that have defined the differing perspectives on your editorial topic.

In your analysis, you should NOT present your own thesis or a claim on the editorial topic but rather analyze multiple perspectives to provide insight into a complex topic but rather analyze the reasoning, assumptions, issues, values and evidence used to support the various perspectives you have identified.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/23/opinion/sunday/army-base-names-confederacy-racism.html