Where a Citizen Can Actually Interrupt a Law
A bill passes through more stages than most people realise, and at two of them the door is genuinely open to anyone - including a sixteen-year-old with an argument.
2 min read →How to Read a Government Document Without Being Intimidated
Budget documents, committee reports and draft bills are free, public and almost entirely unread. They are also much easier to use than they look, once you stop trying to read them like a book.
2 min read →How a School Student Writes Their First White Paper
A white paper is not an essay and not a research paper. It is an argument for doing a specific thing. Here is the structure, the common mistakes, and how to pick a question small enough to answer.
2 min read →Why Consensus Is Harder Than Voting
The G20 has no vote, no charter and no power to bind anyone. That is not a weakness in the design - it is the design, and it makes for a far more demanding room than one where you can simply win.
2 min read →Public Policy Programs for School Students in India
Policy is one of the few subjects a sixteen-year-old can contribute to rather than only study. What these programs teach, what students produce, and why the field is unusually open to school students in India.
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