Lindsay Talbot

Tanner Efinger didn't exactly set out to become a gay-rights activist--before the passing of Proposition 8, he'd never even been that involved in politics or the LGBT community.  But after a little googling, some creative...

Newsweek.com has created a new series of webisodes about Barack Obama's first 100 days in the Oval Office.  It's called "The District" and, if you can't tell by the video's voice-overs and typography, it's meant...

President Obama has signed his first bill: the Lilly Ledbetter Act.  It's a much needed triumph for women's rights in the workplace--and Obama says this one is for his daughters. Lilly's pretty much 2009's Rosie...

Barack Obama's stimulus package, which Congress is voting on today, is certainly multi-faceted.  In yesterday's New York Times, Sam Dillon goes in depth on one of the plan's tenets: Education.  The  proposed plan would "shower...

Beanie Babies--those stuffed animals that were ubiquitous during their heyday in the late '90s--has just released two new dolls: 'Marvelous Malia' and 'Sweet Sasha.'   They bear quite a resemblance to the two first children, so...

Today, America will swear in its 44th President.  It's one of the coldest mornings of the year in Washington, but that hasn't stopped crowds of over a million from descending in on the nation's capital. ...

The Nation is currently featuring a profile on 24-year old activist Sophya Chum, a Long Beach City College student who's been empowering young women and advocating for immigrant rights since she was just a sophomore...

By now, you'd probably have to be living under a rock to not have picked up on the fact that the U.S.'s economy has seen, well, brighter days.  But if all the talk of subprime...

In Sunday's New York Times, columnist Thomas Friedman's op-ed, entitled "The Real Generation X," gave the millennial generation some thought. He writes:I've been thinking a lot lately about Tom Brokaw's book The Greatest Generation, that...

Last year, Kesha Ram was president of the University of Vermont's Student Government Association.  This year, she was elected to serve in Vermont's House of Representatives.  Not bad, considering she's only 22-years-old. Teen Vogue recently...

Politics and music have oft gone hand-in-hand: just take a look at soulful crooner Billie Holiday's "Strange fruit" lyrics or the any tracks folk legend Bob Dylan penned during the Vietnam era. Though the 1960s...

Efforts to get young voters involved in this election were unprecedented, but now that all the ballots have been cast, it's not time for America's youth to be shying away from politics. Instead, things are...

I recently caught up with Michael Connery, one of the main forces behind the fantastic youth blog Future Majority. Also the author of Youth to Power: How Today's Young Voters Are Building Tomorrow's Progressive...

During the Great Depression, president Franklin Delano Roosevelt came up with a way to reassure uneasy Americans that everything would be all right: he delivered weekly "fireside chats" which were broadcast to the public...