Voting

Our turnout should not make us proud. It means that the majority of us sat this Election Day out.

Moving beyond turnout, the underlying problem that must be addressed is disenchantment with electoral politics.

Young adults were a key constituency in the 2008 presidential election but seem to have lost their enthusiasm, according to results from a study by Harvard’s Institute of Politics released Thursday.

Rivka Cohen writes that many American Jews and Jewish organizations do grapple with the cognitive dissonance of loving the land of Israel and Tulio Jose Alvarez Burgos urges us to learn the facts behind the news before heading to the polls.

In the cocoon of Princeton, the impacts of elections seem negligible. But decisions made by Congress on topics ranging from the economy to health care to climate change will affect us for years to come.