Sarah Teague

One of the single most defining aspects of one’s high school career is the college application process, a process near-complete but still ebbing out for most seniors today. And though the experience of applying to college has been a large part of the American teenager’s life for much of our nation’s history, it’s changed drastically […]

The school year is in full swing, and while many high school students have begun submitting college applications, I’ve been putting the final touches on the next issue of the high school publication my friends and I started. Our publication started as an offhand suggestion. We’ve since forgotten who first offered the idea, but our […]

As a young person unable to vote, heightening polarization, demagogic leadership, and lack of civic engagement within the U.S. is deeply concerning to me. The negative effects of malignant partisanship have been warned against since the creation of the United States, and Alexander Hamilton’s contributions to The Federalist papers of 1788 exemplify this concern. Hamilton […]