When Oiyan Poon was president of the University of California Student Association, she learned first-hand how difficult it was to get young people active in politics. But then Barack Obama came along. “I started seeing a difference,” she says.
Around the same time, her father—who had always voted Republican—told Oiyan he was going to vote [...]
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If Thursday night’s debate was a movie, it would be American Gangster: you’re super excited for it, everything points to carnage and death and fantastic-ness, you’re pretty sure you have a classic on your hands. You got two stars at the top of their game set to duke it out on screen. But what d’ya [...]
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