I’ve been a parent, along with my partner Megan, for a little more than two years, and we have tried to stay committed to social justice work since the appearance of our daughter in our lives. While our participation in activist work has been limited recently as a result of raising our child and job [...]

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Kids should vote. Period. I’m not talking about lowering the voting age by a few years to 16, or maybe 15. I mean we should scrap age limits and give suffrage to anyone who wants to vote and is capable of getting through the process (with forms of assistance that don’t entail voting for the [...]

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One aspect of the immigration debate that is deserving of more attention is incarceration of immigrant children. Many kids, often swept up in immigration raids or seeking political asylum in the United States, are thrown into jails, often alone.

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