The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20211026095054/https://www.britannica.com/stories/spotlight

Spotlight

the Beatles. Rock and film. Publicity still from A Hard Day's Night (1964) directed by Richard Lester starring The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr) a British musical quartet. rock music movie
The Birth of Beatlemania: Observing a Fifty-Year (1963–2013) Milestone
Carved pumpkins for Halloween. Jack-o'-lantern.
Pro and Con: Halloween on Saturday
A young black girl voting on election day
Pro and Con: Lowering the Voting Age in the United States
Sunset over the Indian ocean in the Maldives. Sunrise
Pro and Con: Daylight Saving Time
American Pit Bull Terrier Walking On Sea Shore
Pro and Con: Breed-Specific Legislation
Streets of Puerto Rico
Pro and Con: Statehood for Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia
Saint Charles, MO, USA - March 14, 2016: US Senator and Democratic Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders speaks during a campaign rally at the Family Arena in Saint Charles, Missouri.
Pro and Con: Socialism in the United States
NCAA Basketball (USC vs OU, Tulsa, USA - 15 Dec 2018: USC forward Bennie Boatwright (25) grabs the rebound against OU forward Brady Manek (35) during University of Southern California vs. Oklahoma University (USC-OU) game.
Pro and Con: Paying College Athletes
US Skylab space station in orbit. After the Apollo missions, the next major NASA venture was the Skylab manned earth satellite program. The orbiting laboratory was launched on May 14, 1973, and during the year three separate crewsof three men were sent up
Pro and Con: Space Colonization
Currency. Money. Cash. Dollars. Bills. Pile of bills, including dollars, fives, tens, and twenties.
Pro and Con: Student Loan Debt Elimination
International flags on soccer balls. Futbol football. Hompepage blog 2009, arts and entertainment, history and society, sports and games athletics soccer world cup
Olympics: Football (Soccer)
Close-up of police body camera
Pro and Con: Police Body Cameras
Programming computer abstract
Pro and Con: Net Neutrality in the United States
United States Supreme Court, Washington, D.C.
Pro and Con: Court Packing
Picking cotton on a Georgia plantation, 1858. Illustration published in Ballou's Pictorial, v. 14, 1858, p. 49. African Americans; Black Americans; cotton pickers; slavery; slaves; enslavement; Georgia
Pro and Con: Reparations for Slavery
Multi-ethnic group of people sitting on an urban bridge text messaging and sharing smart phone content.
Pro and Con: Is the Internet Making Us Stupid?
BALTIMORE, MD - AUGUST 16: People gather at the site where a statue dedicated to Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson stood August 16, 2017 in Baltimore, Maryland. The City of Baltimore removed four statues celebrating confederate heroes from city
Pro and Con: Historic Statue Removal in the United States
A lone drilling Fracking Rig on a prairie.
Pro and Con: Fracking
Oceanside, CA / USA - June 7, 2020: People hold signs during peaceful Black Lives Matter protest march, one of many in San Diego County. One sign reads "Defund Police"
Pro and Con: Defunding the Police
Social Cancel Culture. Composite image of photograph of lips, some with an X through them.
Pro and Con: Cancel Culture
Normandy Invasion: Omaha Beach. World War II. D-Day. Infographic.
Facts and Figures About the Landings on Omaha Beach During the Normandy Invasion on June 6, 1944
The First Atomic Bombs infographic, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Japan, United States, nuclear weapon, atomic bomb, World War II, WWII
The First Atomic Bombs Tested and Used During World War II
game and gambling, gaming machines, chess playing Turk, design by Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734 - 1804), built by Christoph Mechel, mechanical turk
The Mechanical Turk: AI Marvel or Parlor Trick?
Screen with https for internet security. (encryption, privacy, websites)
Inventions that Helped Shape How We Interact with Knowledge and Information
Grade school students working at computers in a school library. Study learn girl child class technology
The Future of Information and Education
United States Electoral College votes by state
How Many Electoral College Votes Does Each U.S. State Have? 
Apollo program. Apollo command and service modules, Apollo lunar module, Apollo flight path, space exploration, infographic
Spacecraft of the Apollo Program
Chimpanzees sitting on a rock wildlife shot, Gombe/Tanzania
How Other Species Learn
Custom library
A Brief History of Libraries
close up of newspapers
Citizen Journalists
Composite photograph. Group of six young adults in silhouette. Photograph created for use in Britannica's "20 Under 40" article.
The 20 Under 40 Series: Young Shapers of the Future
Galileo Galilei Italian astronomer and mathematician recanting, 1633 (1880). His support for the Copernican model of the Universe brought him into conflict with the Catholic church, and he was tried for heresy by the Inquisition in 1633. (see notes)
Fear of Knowledge
Composite photograph. Young girl with glasses and ponytail in silhouette. Photograph created for use in Britannica's "Teenagers Who Changed the World" article.
Teenagers Who Changed the World in 2020
Scene from a Christmas Carol
Why Dickens Wrote A Christmas Carol
Portrait of Elizabeth I, Queen of England, oil on panel by an anonymous artists, 1550-1599; in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Queen Elizabeth I
Was Elizabeth I a popular queen?
Portrait of Elizabeth I, Queen of England, oil on panel by an anonymous artists, 1550-1599; in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Queen Elizabeth I
What was Queen Elizabeth I’s personal life like?
Your preference has been recorded