Young Voices offers our contributors the opportunity to take a deep-dive on issues that they’re passionate about, aided by resources and mentorship we receive from our partner organizations.
Young Voices currently has three active policy campaigns on school choice, consumer freedom, and technology. Each media hit is the expressed opinion of the author alone (see our Code of Ethics). This page will be updated periodically with relevant media hits.
School Choice
Despite decades of federal interventions and trillions of taxpayer dollars spent, the U.S. is still falling behind the rest of the industrialized world in K-12 education. It doesn’t have to be like this. States and localities have taken charge in giving children new educational opportunities through school choice options (e.g. charter schools, voucher programs, educational savings accounts).
- Chalkboard Review: “School Choice Combats Mental Health Problems” by Cooper Conway
- The American Spectator: “Recapturing the American Dream Means Unlocking Public School Choice” by Satya Marar
- The American Spectator: “School Choice in the Time of COVID” by Christian Barnard
- Chalkboard Review: “It’s Time to Put Power back in the Hands of Parents” by Satya Marar
- The Detroit News: “School Choice benefits everyone, including public school teachers” by Cooper Conway
Consumer Freedom
Special interests regularly lobby governments to restrict consumer freedom to big business’ benefit with little opposition. Young Voices is aiming to change that by standing up for freedom on issues like vaping and tort reform.
- The Bend Bulletin: “Overreactions and Tunnel Vision: Why Americans Should Think Twice About More E-Cigarette Flavor Bans” by Tanner Aliff
- Connecticut Post: “Flavor Bans Won’t Fight Tobacco Or Improve Health” by Satya Marar
- Free the People: “Let Them Vape Cake” by Emilie Dye
Technology & Innovation
For three decades, the internet has thrived because of American lawmakers’ light-touch approach to regulation. But recently, Beltway politicians on both the left and right have been seeking to change this winning formula with proposals to regulate Big Tech like a public utility. Young Voices is pushing back.
- The Article: “Facebook, Australia and the pitfalls of online regulation” by Jason Reed
- Detroit News: “Opinion: Worried about Censorship…” by Shaun Cammack
- Real Clear Policy: “The Problem with Parler’s Antitrust Politics” by Eric Peterson
- Techdirt “Section 230 Let Tech Fix Content Moderation Issues. Congress Should Respect That” by Luke Ashton
- Deseret News: “Breaking up Big Tech won’t help free speech” by Sean-Michael Pigeon
- The American Conservative: “Don’t Let the Riots Legitimize Facial Recognition Tech” by Rachel Chiu
- Real Clear Policy: “Ditching Section 230 Would Make Free Speech Worse for Wear” by James Czerniawski & Trace Mitchell
- Lone Conservative: “Twitter’s New Fact-Checking Feature Kills Truth” by Connor Tomlinson
- Townhall: “Bitcoin is the New Gold” by Emilie Dye
