Saturday Link Love: Teen Years, Black Lives, and Women in Government

Saturday Link Love is a new feature where I collect and post links to various articles I’ve come upon over the past week. Feel free to share any interesting articles you’ve come along as well! The more the merrier.

Note: Inclusion does not imply full agreement! 

Joshua Harris, I Want My Teens Back, on Life After I Kissed Dating Goodbye—“At 24, many of my peers and I were figuring out things that we should’ve learned at 16, like how to bring up conflict in a relationship, how to communicate to someone that you care about them, and simply how to (non-creepily) ask someone on a date.”

A Vision for Black Lives: Policy Demands for Black Power, Freedom & Justice—“In response to the sustained and increasingly visible violence against Black communities in the U.S. and globally, a collective of more than 50 organizations representing thousands of Black people from across the country have come together with renewed energy and purpose to articulate a common vision and agenda.”

The Research Is Clear: Electing More Women Changes how Government Works, on Vox—“And, to put it bluntly, they just get more shit done: A woman legislator, on average, passed twice as many bills as a male legislator in one recent session of Congress.”

I’m Pro-Life. And I’m Voting for Hillary. Here’s Why. on Shannon Dingle—“As the mother of children with disabilities, I can’t look them in the eye, say I value them deeply, and then justify a vote for Trump. I can’t say I’m pro-life and say I’m with him. I can’t.”

Why the President Needs a Council of Historians, on The Atlantic—” … the American diplomat Dennis Ross recently noted that “almost no administration’s leading figures know the history of what we have done in the Middle East.” Neither do they know the history of the region itself.”