Jill Hamilton's work appears in Salon, Cosmopolitan, Jezebel, Esquire, OC Metro, AlterNet, The Orange County Register and DAME. She has also written for Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, The ...

The other day, my 14-year-old daughter reported that the girls at her lunch table were debating the merits of the presidential candidates. Yes, middle-schoolers talking about politics. On their own ...