The November 4th, 2025 election in Texas has various propositions for constitutional amendments on the ballot. One of those proposed amendments is Proposition 15, the Parental Rights Amendment. This amendment would add to the Texas Constitution that parents are the “primary decision-makers” for their children’s education, healthcare, and upbringing. Under this amendment, parents would have…
The current Supreme Court case Chiles v. Salazar centers on Colorado’s 2019 law banning licensed mental health professionals from practicing conversion therapy on minors. Conversion therapy refers to attempts to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity, a practice widely condemned by medical and psychological organizations as harmful. Kaley Chiles, a Colorado counselor, challenged…
If you’ve been young lately, you might have taken some sort of “Digital Safety” class. It was probably mediocre. Perhaps you used Powerschool’s Schoology learning platform that lesson, your teacher very likely used Powerschool SIS to mark you present, and perhaps standardized tests that month were on Powerschool’s Performance Matters service. On January 7th, “Customers”…
The new Seattle NYRA node has taken to the streets to spread our message of youth liberation. We have been out peacefully protesting every Tuesday near public locations around the city, such as the Seattle Central Public Library, the Capitol Hill light rail station, and Franklin High School. We also have plans to participate in…
This story is in progress and will receive additional updates with developing research. If you have a true understanding of the issues regarding the Troubled Teen Industry within the past few years this story frankly is nothing new. Should you have a more broad understanding going further into its history then this unfortunate, tragic incident…
The Newsom-DeSantis debate was largely pointless. It involved Ron DeSantis who is running for president but trailing far behind the Republican frontrunner Donald Trump, and Gavin Newsom who has stated he doesn’t intend to run for president this election cycle but has been suggested as a potential replacement for Joe Biden if he chooses to…
Perhaps only in America must high school seniors jump through so many hoops to get liquor. This is best exemplified in Superbad, where a group of seniors ends up with a couple of eccentric police officers, in late-night parties filled with illicit substances, and on a bus with a crazy person who smashes their bottle…
Soon, 21-year-olds in Brookline, MA won’t be able to legally buy cigarettes. A new town law prohibits anyone born on or after January 1st, 2000 to buy cigarettes ever, regardless of their age. This first-in-the-nation law means that an entire generation of residents won’t be able to legally smoke in the town unless they leave…
“A picture is worth a thousand words” evokes a sort of understanding rooted in sentimental to objective insight. Which is applied depends upon the viewer’s ability to deduce context and even lived experience seemingly unrelated. No longer limited to analog, digital images are more accessible and certainly worth more than just a thousand words. Of…
How come a working 16-year-old pays taxes but is not able to vote? No Taxation Without Representation. It was James Otis who said in the wake of the American Revolution, “Taxation without representation is tyranny.” That’s one of this country’s founding principles, one that I and so many other Americans hold to be just. And…
