We young Americans, long seen but not always heard, are now flexing our muscles at the ballot box. An estimated 23 million of us turned out last November, comprising 19 percent of the American electorate -- that's more than seniors over 65 (17 percent), and a greater share than we...

President Obama has now used his election night victory, Inauguration, and State of the Union address to highlight the injustice of long voting lines and voter suppression in America. The question is now what? While it's certainly commendable to direct public airwaves to our nation's archaic electoral process, recent history...

Despite year-long talk of a youth "enthusiasm gap" this election, millennials had other plans last Tuesday. According to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, an estimated 22-23 million young voters turned out, comprising 19 percent of the American electorate -- 1 percent larger...

Earlier this week CNN/Opinion Research released a series of national polls that seemed to represent young Americans (under the age of 35) marginally at best, if at all. Specifically, they listed respondent data on questions pertaining to "the legalization of marijuana" and "marriages between gay and lesbian couples"...

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By Matthew Segal

The island may be part of L.A. County, and it looks a lot like the Santa Monica Mountains. But to master Santa...

By Ari A. Matusiak, Matthew Segal, & Hilary Doe

There is a tired truism in politics: if you are not heard above the din, you have not spoken. Such is true for the national debate on health care reform these past few weeks, driven and derided by din. Whether...

By Matthew Segal, Caitlin Howarth and Maya Enista

The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education (GIVE) Act yesterday by a vote of 321 to 105, a major victory for young people. Similar to its Senate companion, the Serve America Act, this bill will expand access...

It's time we reclaim the media narrative: it seems as though every 15 minutes, a different news network is decrying how the integrity of our elections has been marred and how, no matter what happens now, the result of November 4th should be called into question.

Well, they are right...but...

About a month before my friend Ohio Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones passed away last August, she spoke before a large student gathering and prophetically read the words of Bernice Johnson Regan: "The older I get the better I know that the secret of my going on," she said, "is when...

Most everybody who is a friend or colleague of mine has come to know of my friendship with Stephanie Tubbs Jones over the past few years. I liked to talk about her — the loud and proud gentlelady from Ohio, the sassy fighter for social justice who always wore bright...

I must confess: when reading Thomas Friedman's October 10 article "Generation Q," I couldn't help but think of a lyric from Bob Dylan's song "Troubled and I Don't Know Why," in which Dylan sings, "Oh what did the newspaper tell?/ Well, it rolled in the door/ And it laid...

The following piece was produced by the Huffington Post's OffTheBus project.

Two weeks ago, September 25th, the United States Supreme Court agreed to consider a case on voter ID laws. The case, appealed in the seventh circuit court, requires registered voters in the state of Indiana to provide a...

Last Tuesday, September 25th, the United States Supreme Court agreed to consider a case on voter ID laws. The case, appealed in the seventh circuit court, requires registered voters in the state of Indiana to provide a government-issued photo ID in order to cast a ballot. Proponents of the law...