I distracted myself from the bad screen with…more bad screen. — If 2020 is a hot mess, Election Day-Turned-Week was a dumpster fire. I wasn’t sleeping, I was glued to a screen at all times, and I lost brain cells worrying about the fate of democracy. In a year where everything is, yes, unprecedented, I’ve been clinging to any semblance of…

Find information about voting rights, local hotlines, and same-day registration. — After a year marked by a devastating pandemic, civil unrest in response to widespread racial injustice, and blatant voter suppression efforts, Americans are being given their final chance to determine what they want the next four years to look like today. As you head to the polls today to cast…

“I think that Gen Z is a lot more intelligent and capable than a lot of kind of older generations like to paint them as.” — Young voters get a bad rep. Less than half of American voters between the ages of 18 and 29 voted in 2016, and the youth vote is often characterized as being “disillusioned” and “apathetic.” But fast-forward just a few years, and young voters are breaking records. In 2018, Gen Z…

“That’s the most classic, old fashioned way to raise money.” — Rukmini Das usually only bakes once a year, on Thanksgiving. But, like many other Americans, she started baking more often when stay-at-home orders were implemented in late March during the COVID-19 pandemic’s spread in the United States Das, 24, left Princeton, N.J. in March to quarantine with her family in…

“Our students, our teachers, the county need a form of news.” — The last time Clarke Central High School senior Owen Donnelly, 17, saw his newspaper staff was in March. The Georgia school’s newsmagazine, The ODYSSEY, had won several awards at the Southern Interscholastic Press Association Convention, and the staff was fired up to finish off the semester strongly. “I was like…