Give And Take

Episode 199: How to Start a Revolution: Young People and the Future of American Politics, with Lauren Duca

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My guest is Lauren Duca. Her new book is How to Start a Revolution: Young People and the Future of American Politic (https://www.amazon.com/How-Start-Revolution-American-Politics/dp/1501181637)s. In it this Teen Vogue award-winning columnist shares a smart and funny guide for challenging the status quo in a much-needed reminder that young people are the ones who will change the world. Duca investigates and explains the issues at the root of our ailing political system and reimagines what an equitable democracy would look like. It begins with young people getting involved. People like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the youngest woman ever to be elected to Congress; David and Lauren Hogg, two survivors of the Parkland, Florida shooting who went on to become advocates for gun control; Amanda Litman, who founded the nonprofit organization Run For Something, to assist progressive young people in down ballot elections; and many more. Called “the millennial feminist warrior queen of social media” by Ariel Levy and “a nat