Youth in Action: Sophya Chum, Immigrant Rights Activist
Jamilah King You voted. Now what? Look in your own backyard to find an issue close to your community.
Jamilah King You voted. Now what? Look in your own backyard to find an issue close to your community.

Brett Story & VideoNation : Energy
Now that they've shown their power at the polls, young voters are channeling their energy into a green economy.
Cora Currier : Presidential Election 2008
In state after state, the number of new voters has swelled like never before. They're mostly under 30 and solidly backing Barack Obama.

Peter Dreier : Voters & Voting
Young voters could be the key to victory for Obama and Democratic Congressional candidates. Here's how they're changing the electoral map.
Elizabeth Giegerich : Higher Education
Three years after Hurricane Katrina, Tulane University thrives, due in part to its revamped commitment to community.
Michael Gould-Wartofsky : Activism & Organizing
Thousands of young activists are poised to protest at the Democratic and Republican conventions. In the age of Obama, is street protest still relevant?
Andy Kroll : Presidential Election 2008
The future of the Republican brand rests in the text message happy hands of young America--which should scare the living daylights out of John McCain.
Katha Pollitt : Reproductive Rights
Teens getting pregnant: bad. Teens having babies: good. If this makes no sense, wake up and smell the Enfamil: it's 2008!
Michael Tisserand : Charter Schools
Drastic changes in the educational system are leaving New Orleans's public schools behind.
You thought Arthur was gone for good? The indie magazine beloved for its music coverage and antiwar politics will resume publishing this summer.
Katha Pollitt : Feminism & Women
The Dangerous Book for Boys does no boy a favor by resuscitating the Anglo-imperial manly ideals. And what about girls?
Teenage presents a lively but scattershot portrait of youth in the modern era.
Child soldiering has become a defining feature of modern warfare. And the United States has been all too complicit in the trend.
Lakshmi Chaudhry : Feminism & Women
The marketing-driven message of the perfect girl--smart, skinny, pretty, athletic and loved by all--is a model of perfection that's hard to live up to. Can't girls just be free to be?
Sam Graham-Felsen : Student Movements
Barack Obama's youthful supporters are using Facebook and other social networking web tools to spark a movement that could make a real difference.
Young rebels in France are fighting not for change but for the same rights their parents tried to secure during the 1968 student revolution.
Walter Mosley : African-Americans
It's time to transform the two-party system into something more equitable by introducing smaller political groups based on special interests: Consider the power of a black voting bloc led by young people.
Jonathan Kozol : African-Americans
Apartheid education is alive in America and rapidly increasing in hyper-segregated inner-city schools. And though it's now fashionable for policy-makers to declare integration a failure, effective programs across the country still survive--and deserve to thrive.
Jon Wiener : Education Policy & Reform
How do you tell a student the story of September 11?
The Community Education Partners (CEP) serves students the public schools don't want--and it makes millions.
Military recruiters are targeting the nation's high schools and junior highs, seeking an early harvest of soldiers-to-be. Is your child next?
Adam Howard : Campaigns & Elections
If everything goes according to plan, a voting bloc as influential as the religious right, but progressive, could be established.
