Sophia Tascone   To many high school and college students in North Carolina, the realm of politics seems like a whole different world. Involvement seems inaccessible, like it belongs to someone else: “real” adults—those who are older or richer or more privileged—not students.   Beck Whitehead was one such student. “One of my bigger regrets is that I wasn’t more involved in high school,” he told me in a Feb. 2026 … Continue reading How A Youth Affiliate Leadership Change Promises to Increase Students’ Political Involvement