Now we live in an era of twenty-four-hour news cycles and breaking news alerts, but I can’t remember ever having a political discussion with my high school friends twenty years ago. We would bring in our carefully clipped newspaper articles and discuss current events in class. I was often passionate about a particular event because, as a human, I wanted to make the world better. But our discussions were never heated or intense or partisan. When we left the class, it was over. We were focused on the minutiae of high school: school dramas and school lives.
