Why Politics Should Matter for Everyone

By: Kyra Jenkins

When most teenagers hear politics, they are going to tune the following information out, or might imagine a skewed perception of the information that is provided to them through media or their surroundings. The truth is that politics aren’t supposed to be dealt with by the adults, because we are becoming those adults that we have pushed this great responsibility onto. Here’s a wrap-up of the past few months in easier terms, and reasons why politics SHOULD matter to you.

These decisions will be covered more in-depth in later articles (coming soon!), but the banning of many books that were once required in school curricula, the bombing of Iran (done by fighter jets from Missouri), and coverage on the No Kings Protest on June 14, 2025.