ST PAUL -- One of the first speakers at last night's RNC event was a 20-year-old young woman named Ashley Gunn. Gunn began her speech by trying to disprove the old Socratic saying that "Children are Tyrants." She told the crowd that when she was 12 years old she went...

Sioux Falls, South Dakota: With his shoulder length blond locks, a white tank top hugging his skinny frame, and his defined arms outstretched horizontal to the ground, Phil Joe really looked like a rock star Jesus. Perhaps that was the point. After all, this was a Christian Rock show. And,...

While running for president in 1976, the then Governor of California Jerry Brown, said that the country was entering an "era of limits." The idea was radical. Calling on the country to patrol itself when it came to environmental issues (and other issues as well) seemed in conflict with American...

As I traveled through the Southwest this past week, I aimed to examine what types of inspiration young people draw from when they think about politics. I came across two towns only 263 miles apart but seemingly from different eras. In Gallup, New Mexico, I talked with a number of...

There is no generation immune to the bug that is identity politics.

While driving through Mississippi and Alabama, I found that the country's youngest voters, like many of their parents and whether they liked to admit it or not, considered identity high on the list when deciding whom to...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- 30 minutes before John McCain was scheduled to go onstage at the Albuquerque Hotel for his Town Hall, a group of seven security guards and secret service men gathered around Chris Salas, 20.

Clutching a ticket for the event and wearing "National Abortion Rights Action League" T-shirt,...

Texas is enormous, but it's always close to Mexico.

Immigration is at the center of public discourse here, and as we crossed into the behemoth one major question stuck on my mind: What do young people in Texas have to say on the issue? Will they sound like Senator Barack...

Having graduated from college without a job offer, I decided to hit the road and document what young people talk about when they talk about politics for my blog Across the Great Divide.. My first stop was to Washington D.C. where I met up with an old friend, Matthew...

Change. Whether it's Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton or John McCain talking, "change" has been a buzzword this election season. But, like all buzzwords, it is slippery and elusive. Obama's "Change we can believe in" means something entirely different than the now fallen Huckabee's "Change the constitution," which in turn differs...