Well, I think the point is: The entire system is broken. As long as people are voting along party lines based on their cultural indoctrination, democracy is a sham. It doesn’t matter if those people are teenagers or adults. The only “cure” is education and exposure to diverse ideas. Some people never receive that, or [...]

Fantastic post. I was a fan of the way Biden called Ryan out for not following Catholic social teaching (I’m not Catholic, nor was I raised in that faith, but I think it was a good response to the assertion that being Catholic and pro-choice are mutually exclusive). But, I’m also of the mind that [...]

I don’t work with students, and never have, so my thoughts are based on purely anecdotal personal experience, but I am not optimistic that lowering the voting age would put more weight behind key feminist issues. As a teen, my political views (and most everything else about me) was motivated by one exhausting desire: Pleasing [...]