| Recent events have kept the world on edge, the threat of terrorism a constant hot-button topic. |
| Although any hot-button issue can lay bare the way fear fuels money in politics, the gun issue does it best. |
| It is not all bad things that are being proposed, but the bulk of it is focused on a hot-button response, which may end up costing the taxpayer more in the long run and does not really address the problem. |
| Nevertheless, the justices continue to have a profound effect on some of the most hot-button issues in America. |
| Stories on hot-button topics like recreational drug use or sexually transmitted diseases would be written without an alarmist or finger-wagging tone. |
| On the environmental front, global warming is the hot-button issue, followed closely by air quality because of its impact on health. |
